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Hormisdas involvement in the killings that took place in Nyanza Parish,&quot; said the witness in response to the question by a French lawyer, Emmanuel Altit, lead defence counsel for the clergy man.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe accused who started testifying on his own defence on Tuesday morning had to be suspended after lunch to give the opportunity to this distant witness to give her evidence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe witness also former students of at the Christ the King college recalled that Fr. Nsengimana's sermons on Sundays would &quot;encourage youths to study hard and love one another without discriminations.&quot; She concluded her testimony.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nResuming his evidence on Wednesday, Fr. Hormisdas supported the testimony of witness RFCD6 by denying categorically that he killed two ethnic Tutsi priests during genocide namely Fr. Justin Furaha and Fr. Mathiieu Ngirumpatse who was his class mate at Nyakibanda Major Seminary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe defendant continues with his testimony on Thursday. He was arrested in 2002 and his trial commenced in June 2007.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNI\/SC\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&copy; Hirondelle News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arusha, 9 July 2008 (FH) - A defence witness denied before the International Criminal tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Tuesday allegations that former Rector of Christ the King College in Rwanda, father Hormisdas Nsengimana took part in the 1994 genocide at Nyanza Parish, Butare prefecture, South Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-20404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hirondellenews"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>09.07.08 - 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