Historic trial: Doctor accused of Rwanda genocide to stand trial in Britain

London's Old Bailey Central Criminal Court is launching an unprecedented criminal case against 65-year-old doctor Vincent Brown (formerly known as Vincent Bajinha) accused of directing murders during the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, the Courthouse News Service and Genocide Watch reported. The trial was the first prosecution of Rwandan genocide crimes under British jurisdiction.

According to the British Crown Prosecution Service, the investigation into Scotland Yard's war crimes unit lasted more than seven years. Brown, who has lived in London for more than two decades, is accused of directly inciting and directing the massacre of six civilians, including a mother with a young child, at checkpoints in Kigali.

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The accused denies wrongdoing and claims to have left the Rwandan capital in the early days of the massacre. Lawyers call the court an important precedent of the principle of universal jurisdiction against persons involved in the mass extermination of people.

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