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The 1994 Rwanda genocide resulted in the deaths of approximately 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus, over 100 days. This case marks the first time the UK has prosecuted an individual for alleged involvement in the genocide under its universal jurisdiction laws.
Prosecutors said on Monday they had brought the first-ever charges in the UK against a man for his alleged role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, after a complex seven-year investigation.
Vincent Brown, 65, was arrested and charged on Monday with one count of being an ancillary to genocide and six offences of aiding crimes against humanity in Rwanda, prosecutors and the London police said.
“He is alleged to have directed and incited acts of murder and genocide carried out by others” against the Tutsi, said Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s special crime and counterterrorism division, in the first ever such charges in the UK.
Some 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were beaten, shot, or hacked to death with machetes in 100 days of slaughter.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The case will proceed to trial in a UK court
Likely · Within months
Further legal proceedings may examine Vincent Brown's alleged role in directing and inciting violence
Possible · Within months
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