A COURT in the northwestern Rwandan town of Gisenyi has sentenced 10 people to death and 23 to life imprisonment after convicting them of genocide and crimes against humanity, state radio reported on Saturday. Among those sentenced to death on Friday was Wellars Banzi, a former member of parliament and chairman in Gisenyi of the National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development (MRNDD) party that was in power during the 1994 genocide, the radio said. Banzi was accused of inciting Hutus to kill Tutsis through articles published in the Kangura newspaper. Between 500_000 and 800_000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were murdered in the wave of ethnic bloodletting that swept Rwanda following the death of president Juvenal Habyarimana, who was killed when his plane was shot down over Kigali in April 1994. Some 125_000 genocide suspects are currently being detained awaiting trial in Rwanda.