RWANDAN bishop Augustin Misago, who faced charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, was acquitted on Thursday and freed by a court in Kigali. The verdict was applauded in the court. The trial of Misago, the former bishop of southwestern Gikongoro, for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda which claimed between 500000 and 800000 lives, began last August. The public prosecutor had called for the death sentence.