\nKigali, November 06, 2009 (FH) - Member of Parliament Theobald Mporanyi and District Mayor of Gakenke Pierre Damien Kakizayezu appeared on Thursday before the Gacaca court of Ngoma (town of Butare) for their alleged responsibility in the 1994 genocide.\n<\/p>\n
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\nAccording to a Human Rights' activist who asked to remain unidentified, they are charged for inciting to exterminate Tutsi professors and students at the National University of Rwanda (UNR), where they were studying at the time. Both defendants plead not guilty.\n<\/p>\n
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\nHearings will resume on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n
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\nSeveral professors and students from UNR have already been sentenced by Gacaca courts for their role in the genocide, some of them in absentia.\n<\/p>\n
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\nThe Gacaca courts, adapted from a form of Rwandan traditional justice, are tasked with trying suspected perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide which left some 800,000 people dead, according to the UN. These village courts, whose judges are elected from the community, can hand down sentences up to life imprisonment, which is now the maximum penalty in Rwanda. They are expected to wind down their proceedings by December.\n<\/p>\n
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