An international court found the former mayor of a central Rwandan city guilty of the slaughter and rape of more than 2,000 victims by police, soldiers and Hutu militiamen under his authority. Harris Schoenberg, director of U.N. affairs for B’nai Brith, said of the ruling against Jean-Paul Akayesu by the U.N.’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, “This judgment is a testament to the collective determination of the U.N. member states to confront the heinous crime of genocide in a way that they have never done before.”
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