BRUSSELS: A Brussels court found a former Rwandan official guilty of genocide on Thursday after hearing of his role in the 1994 massacres in his country.
His defence hung on questioning the credibility of the multiple witnesses called against him - but prosectors managed to prove that the exile has been living a lie for a quarter of a century.During the trial, Neretse was accused of having ordered the murder of 11 identified civilians in Kigali and two in a rural area north of the capital in April and July 1994.
Neretse was a farming expert who founded a college in his home district Mataba, in the north of Rwanda. He was arrested in 2011 in France, where he had rebuilt a professional life as a refugee, and he has spent only a few months in protective pre-trial custody. Martine Beckers has been fighting since 1994 for justice for her sister's family, allegedly murdered in Kigali by Hutu extremists. ICE CREAM PARLOUR
Magistrates have been compiling evidence in the case for 15 years and the fact that it came to trial"owes a lot to her determination" her lawyer Eric Gillet said before the hearings.
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