Missionary ‘astonished’ at genocide charge

A RWANDAN community court charged a Belgian missionary with inciting and planning the 1994 genocide that left more than half a million people dead.

Guy Theunis, 60, is the first foreigner to appear before the courts set up to investigate and try more than 760,000 people suspected in the 100-day slaughter.

It were orchestrated by the extremist Hutu government then in power and targeted mostly members of the Tutsi ethnic minority. Moderate Hutus were also among the victims.