ITALO-BELGIAN former journalist Georges Omar Ruggiu, 44, has pleaded guilty in a UN court in Arusha, Tanzania, to having used the airwaves to incite the 1994 genocide that claimed up to 800000 lives in Rwanda. Ruggiu is the only non-Rwandan to appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He “admitted having directly and publicly incited murders and caused serious attacks on the physical and/or mental well-being of members of the Tutsi population with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, an ethnic or racial group,” the independent Hirondelle news agency reported. Ruggiu worked for Radio Milles Collines, frequently referred to as Hate Radio, in Kigali in 1994. According to the charges levelled against Ruggiu, the radio station was used to preach “the ideology and plans of Hutu extremists in Rwanda.”