EIGHTY-four prisoners held on charges of participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide publicly confessed to their crimes during a Presbyterian church service, official radio reported this week. The suspects confessed to their role in the wave of ethnic violence that swept the country, leaving between 500000 and 800000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus dead. They also asked the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission to arrange meetings with their victims’ families. Last month, the Rwandan government organised a first reconciliation conference for Rwandans from home and abroad for three days of talks aimed at coming to terms with the ethnic bloodshed of the past. – AFP