Politician Goes on Trial for Genocide
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Rwanda put on trial a prominent politician accused of being a ringleader of the 1994 genocide of minority Tutsis masterminded by Hutu extremists. Froduald Karamira was a vice president of the extremist MDR-Power party under the ousted Hutu-led government and is the most senior suspect held in Rwanda on charges of taking part in the mass slaughter of at least 500,000 people. Karamira was born a Tutsi but converted to become a member of the Hutus.
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