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French court jails ex-top Rwandan official for 20 years over genocide

Court-sketch made on May 9, 2022, of former senior Rwandan official Laurent Bucyibaruta during his trial in Paris over his role in the 1994 genocide. AFP - BENOIT PEYRUCQ

A French court on Tuesday jailed a former senior Rwandan official for 20 years after finding him guilty of complicity in the African nation's genocide.

Laurent Bucyibaruta is the highest-ranking Rwandan to have faced trial in France over the 1994 massacres in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in 100 days of mass killings.

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