A UN court trying alleged masterminds of Rwanda’s genocide sentenced a former interior minister to 30 years in prison yesterday for tricking thousands of people to hide on a hill, only to watch them get slaughtered by militias.

A former Rwandan government minister who tricked thousands of refugees into being slaughtered was jailed for 30 years today.

A UN court has sentenced the organiser of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed more than 500,000 lives to life in prison.

A UN tribunal has extended the sentence of a priest to life in prison after upholding his war crimes conviction for ordering militiamen to burn and bulldoze a church with 1,500 people inside during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

A strong earthquake shook northern Tanzania today, one in a series in recent days in the region, officials said.

A Catholic priest was today convicted of participating in Rwanda's 1994 genocide by ordering militiamen to set fire to a church and then bulldoze it while 2,000 people were huddled inside seeking safety.

A RENOWNED Rwandan singer went on trial yesterday before a UN tribunal, accused of writing lyrics that incited the notorious 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which 500,000 people were killed in just 100 days.

A former Rwandan government minister who was indicted on charges of involvement in the 1994 genocide was found dead floating in a Brussels canal, officials said today.

THE suspected architect of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide begins a fourth week of testimony today, defying accusers in the biggest trial to date over the African nation’s 100 days of slaughter.

Rwanda marks the anniversary of the 1994 genocide today with the beginning of a week of mourning for the more than 500,000 people who died in a frenzy of killing that remains fresh in the minds of the survivors.

A former senior Rwandan army officer appeared before a UN court today and denied six charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

THE landmark trial of a Rwandan Catholic priest accused of supervising the massacre of 2,000 of his Tutsi parishioners during the central African country’s 1994 genocide opened in his absence.

Four senior cabinet ministers from the former Rwandan government went on trial today before a UN tribunal for helping plan and instigate the 1994 genocide that left more than 500,000 people dead.

Rwanda is considering introducing the death penalty for local journalists who incite racial hatred.