French court jails Laurent Bucyibaruta for 20 years over genocide

Former senior Rwandan official Laurent Bucyibaruta

This court sketch made on May 9, 2022, shows former senior Rwandan official Laurent Bucyibaruta during his trial for genocide.  PHOTO | AFP

Photo credit: Benoit Peyrucq | AFP

A French court has jailed a former senior Rwandan official for 20 years after finding him guilty of complicity in his country's genocide.

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 in 100 days of mass killings.