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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Rwandan genocide: The long road to justice

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In October 2009, Desire Munyaneza stood to hear the Quebec court sentence him to life imprisonment, the first person convicted under Canada's war crimes legislation for his role in the Rwandan genocide.

 The train was pulling into Montreal's Sauvé station, the faces of passengers slowly coming into focus, when Jean-Paul Nyilinkwaya locked eyes with a killer.Read More

 

Through the window of the train, out to the subway platform where Nyilinkwaya stood, came a familiar gaze he had not met for more than a decade, since the men were high school classmates in Butare, Rwanda.

 

The man had aged, but there was no mistaking him. It was Désiré Munyaneza, or "Gikovu," Kinyarwanda for Scar Face.

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