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US Trial of Eric Nshimiye (Rwandan Genocide Charges)

A US federal trial has begun against Eric Nshimiye, a Rwandan-American accused of participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, who disputes the reliability of eyewitness evidence against him.

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A US trial has begun for Eric Nshimiye, a Rwandan-American US citizen accused of a role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide (Al Jazeera, October 13). Nshimiye says the evidence against him consists of unreliable eyewitness accounts. The case is part of a continuing pattern of US prosecutions targeting individuals linked to the genocide decades after the events, raising issues about evidentiary reliability in historical atrocity cases.