/ 14 February 2001

RWANDANS CHARGED WITH GENOCIDE

FOUR Rwandans – including two Catholic nuns – suspected of involvement in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda will go on trial in Brussels on April 17. Vincent Ntezimana and Alphonse Higaniro, and nuns Gertrude Mukangango and Julienne Kizito, all residents of Brussels, are charged with war crimes, according to the official indictment. Higaniro and Ntezimana are accused of several killings, and Ntezimana is suspected of having been the author of the ideology behind the genocide. Sisters Mukangango and Kizito are accused of having turned hundreds of victims, who had sought shelter in their convent in Sovu near Butare, over to their killers. – AFP