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Rwandan genocide conviction

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A court in Canada has passed the guilty verdict on a Rwandan man on charges relating to genocide.

42-year old Desire Munyaneza, a Hutu, was found guilty of war crimes during the 1994 genocide and is the first person to be tried under Canada's 7-year old War Crimes Act.

For a look at the significance of the court's decision, Bola Mosuro spoke to Professor Rene Provost, Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism - an organisation that does research into human rights and the role of law in a legally plural world.

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