Wenceslas Munyeshyaka

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Who is Wenceslas Munyeshyaka?

Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka is a Rwandan Roman Catholic priest who was found guilty of involvement in the Rwandan genocide.

A military tribunal in Rwanda has found a Catholic priest, resident in France, guilty of rape and involvement in the 1994 genocide and sentenced him in absentia to life in prison. He was found to have delivered hundreds of adults and children to the genocidal militias, which brutally slaughtered them.

The military tribunal found Munyeshyaka guilty of rape and of aiding militias in the killing of hundreds of Tutsi refugees at the Holy Family Cathedral in downtown Kigali, where he was head priest.

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on July 23, 2013

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