A Top Genocide Suspect Pleads Not Guilty
From Times Wire Reports
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A former head of Rwanda’s army, regarded as one of the most senior suspects facing trial in the country’s 1994 genocide, pleaded not guilty before a United Nations tribunal in neighboring Tanzania.
Former Maj. Gen. Augustin Bizimungu, 50, appeared angry as he responded to the charges that he conspired to exterminate Rwanda’s ethnic Tutsi minority and moderate Hutus. He is also accused of forming and arming militias in the slaughter. More than 800,000 people died.
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