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Canadian court acquits refugee of genocide in brutal 1994 Rwandan terror
OTTAWA – Former Rwandan school teacher Jacques Mungwarere has been acquitted of genocide in Canada’s second trial under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
He was found not guilty on one count of genocide by murder, and on one count of crimes against humanity by murder, after a 26-week trial by judge alone.
He has been in custody since he was arrested in 2009 in Windsor, Ont., following an RCMP investigation that began in 2003.
Mungwarere, who came to Canada as a refugee in 2001, was accused of participating in a massacre of Tutsis in the region of Kibuye during the 1994 genocide.
He claimed the accusations against him were trumped up by people with other agendas.
Judge Michel Charbonneau of the Ontario Superior Court found reasonable doubt in the case and freed him today.
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