The Appeal Court of Paris upheld the life sentence given to Philippe Manier, a former Rwandan gendarme, who was retried for his involvement in the Tutsi genocide, after six and a half weeks of ...

French authorities have ruled a Paris court can try a Rwandan Hutu shopkeeper alleged to have participated in the execution of Tutsi civilians in 1994 on genocide and crimes against humanity charges.

In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents ...