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A French court sentenced Laurent Bucyibaruta, the man who planned one of the bloodiest episodes of the Rwandan genocide, to 20 years in prison. Laurent Bucyibaruta is the highest-ranking Rwandan to have faced trial in France over the 1994 massacres, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died. …

Former Franco-Rwandan driver Claude Muhayimana has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in the massacres of Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He was found guilty of complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity by a French court which condemned him. Mr Muhayimana who denied …