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On November 16, 2006, a Rwandan military court convicted Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, a Roman Catholic Rwandan priest, of genocide for his role in the systematic rape and Hutu massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.1 Munyeshyaka, who has lived in exile in France since 1995, was convicted in absentia and sentenced to life imprisonment. The Rwandan military court has also convicted former Rwandan army general Laurent Munyakazi, who was in charge of the military in the Nyarugenge district where Munyeshyaka’s church was located, sentencing him to life imprisonment 2
1 Katerina Ossenova, Rwanda Military Court Convicts Priest in Genocide Case, Jurist (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu).
2 Id