Rwanda: Kanyarukiga Pleads Not Guilty to Genocide Before UN Tribunal

In his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Gaspard Kanyarukiga has entered a plea of not guilty. Amongst other allegations, the 59 year old, arrested last Friday in South Africa, is said to have supervised the massacre of some 2,000 Tutsi civilians taking shelter in Nyange church in 1994 by transporting police and members of the Interahamwe militia to the scene. In total he faces four charges: genocide, complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity. A date for Kanyarukiga's trial is yet to be fixed.