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Landmark Trial Brings Back Memories of Rwanda Genocide.
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Trial of four key military figures implicated in the 1994 Rwanda genocide opens Tuesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, barely four days to the 8th anniversary of the commencement of the pogrom, considered to be "one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century.
The shooting down of the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana and his Burundian counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira by yet to be identified gunmen near the Presidency in Kigali on 6 April 1994, started the blood bath in which some 800,000 people, many ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu, lost their lives.
Col. Theoneste Bagosora, 61, a Hutu who was in charge of the presidential guard and four aides, have been widely accused of masterminding the killings that followed.
The other co-accused are Lt.-Col. Anatole Nsengiyumva 52, Maj. Aloys Ntabakuze, 48, and Brig.-Gen. Gratien Kabiligi, 51.
The "military trials" are considered to be of great importance vis-a-vis the entire Rwanda genocide issues, says Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Adviser and spokesman of the tribunal.
The trial forms the basis on which the ICTR Prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland intends to anchor her case on genocide and crimes against humanity, Moghalu told reporters in Nairobi last week in a briefing on the trial.
It will involve proving that the top level government officials planned, financed and systematically executed and supervised the targeting and killing of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994.
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