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 KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - A Rwandan community court charged a Belgian missionary with inciting and planning the 1994 genocide that left more than half a million people dead.
Guy Theunis, 60, is the first foreigner to appear before the community courts set up to investigate and try more than 760,000 people suspected in the 100-day slaughter. The massacres were orchestrated by the extremist Hutu government then in power and targeted mostly members of the Tutsi ethnic minority. Moderate Hutus were also among the victims.
Theunis insisted the allegations were based on false information, but the nine-judge panel Sunday classified him among the alleged leaders. As a result his case was automatically transferred to a conventional court, where he will face a possible death penalty if convicted.
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