A district court in Oslo, Norway has convicted a Rwandan man for his part in the 1994 genocide and sentenced him to 21 years in prison.
Sadi Bugingo, a 47 year old man living in Norway, was found guilty of complicity in premeditated killings of at least 20,000 Tutsis. The court focussed on three attacks that occurred in Bugingo's home town of Kibungo in April 1994.
Judge Jonas Petter Madsoe said:
"Several witnesses have described how the accused was present in the massacres,"
"In this court's view, there are also several other circumstances in the case which together support the conclusion that the defendant supported and participated in the genocide which took place in Kibungo."
Bugingo was granted residency in 2005, after arriving in Norway in 2001 to be with his family who had fled Rwanda previously.