Rwanda: Trial of top Rwanda genocide suspect starts

The trial of a former Rwandan minister suspected of playing a key role in the 1994 genocide of some 800,000 people started at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) last Thursday. Prosecutors accuse Andre Rwamakuba of drawing up lists of Tutsi people to be killed and allowing militiamen with him to kill women and disembowel those who were pregnant. The former doctor also allegedly walked around a hospital with an axe hanging from his belt, striking any ethnic Tutsis he found in wards or corridors.