A Rwandan court sentenced nine people to death and...

A Rwandan court sentenced nine people to death and one to life imprisonment over the killing of a survivor who was due to testify about their role in the country's 1994 genocide.
The court ruled that the defendants were guilty of killing Emile Ntahimana in 2003 in the south-western province of Gikongoro.
Prosecutors said Ntahimana was among four genocide survivors who were killed by a gang of genocide suspects in order to stop them from giving evidence in the so-called traditional Gacaca village courts.
The Gacaca courts were introduced in 2001 to help speed up trials for an estimated 85,000 suspects held in the tiny central African nation's prisons in connection with the genocide in which extremist Hutus killed some 800,000 people.