Ex-Mayor Pleads Guilty to Murder in Genocide
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A former Rwandan mayor accused of participating in the killing of several thousand people who sought refuge in a church pleaded guilty to charges of murder and extermination related to the 1994 genocide of more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda.
Paul Bisengimana changed his previous plea of not guilty after striking a deal with prosecutors under which they dropped 10 other charges.
The former mayor of Gikoro was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, based in Arusha, Tanzania.
Bisengimana was a member of the extremist Hutu government, which orchestrated the slaughter.
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