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Three Rwanda genocide suspects arrested in Belgium
Key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Photo credit: Simon Wohlfahrt | AFP
What you need to know:
- The 1994 genocide claimed 800,000 lives, mostly Tutsis but also moderate Hutus.
- Belgium has held five trials since 2001 of Rwandans implicated in the killings, with four that year — including two nuns — sentenced to terms of up to 20 years for handing over Tutsis in their shelter to Hutu militants.
Three men suspected of involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide have been arrested and charged in Belgium with serious abuse of human rights, the prosecutor's office said Saturday.
The office gave no details about the three but said their identities had been established with the help of witness testimony collected in Rwanda by a Belgian investigation.
