Rwanda: Military II Trial - Last Defendant Begins His Defence 20 October

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Arusha Captain Innocent Sagahutu, accused of genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), will begin his defence on 20 October, the last of the four defendants of the "Military II" case, reports Hirondelle Agency. Sagahutu commanded, during the genocide committed against mainly ethnic Tutsis in 1994, a squadron of the reconnaissance battalion. His former immediate superior, Major Francois-Xavier Nzuwonemeye, who was with the head of this elite unit, left the witness stand Wednesday evening at the end of his three days of his own defence testimony. The two men are on trial with the former Chief of Staff of Army, General Augustin Bizimungu and the former Head of National Police, General Augustin Ndindiliyimana. Accused of crimes of... [read full story]