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Seventh Rwandan genocide suspect goes on trial in Paris

Rwandan doctor Sosthene Munyemana, at the Bordeaux courthouse in October 2010, to face an extradition request from Rwanda. Munyemana, suspected of taking part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, goes on trial in Paris starting 14 November 2023. © Patrick Bernard/AFP

A Rwandan doctor known as the “butcher of Tumba”, accused of facilitating the 1994 Rwandan genocide, goes on trial in Paris starting Tuesday. He will become the seventh Rwandan to be tried in France for crimes related to the genocide.

Sosthene Munyemana, 68, is accused of perpetrating and planning massacres against Tutsis in Tumba, in the current town of Hyue, in southern Rwanda.

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