PARIS: In a landmark ruling, a Paris court jailed for life Wednesday two former Rwandan mayors accused of orchestrating the massacre of hundreds of Tutsis during the country’s 1994 genocide.

The court said Octavien Ngenzi, 58, and his predecessor Tito Barahira, 64, were guilty of “crimes against humanity,” “massive and systematic summary executions” and “genocide” in their village of Kabarondo, where some 2,000 people seeking refuge in a church were bludgeoned and hacked to death.

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