Rwanda church massacre trial opens

Fifteen years after Rwanda’s genocide, a businessman went on trial today accused of ordering bulldozers to demolish a church where 2,000 Tutsis had sought shelter and watching as they were crushed by the collapsing structure or hunted down by armed gangs.

More than half a million members of the Tutsi minority and moderates from the Hutu majority were slaughtered during the 100-day Rwandan genocide in 1994, and justice is still being meted out.