A Paris court sentenced a Rwandan former doctor, Eugene Rwamucyo, to 27 years in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide in his home country.
Rwamucyo was found guilty of complicity in genocide, complicity in crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to prepare the ground for those crimes.
He was acquitted of the charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Several witnesses travelled to Paris for the trial, giving graphic descriptions of the killings in the Butare region where Rwamucyo was at the time.
This is the seventh trial related to the genocide in April 1994 that has come to court in Paris in the past decade.
The massacres saw over 800,000 of Rwanda’s minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus killed by gangs of Hutu extremists, backed by the army and police.
Angélique Uwamahoro, who was 13 at the time, came to court to seek justice for her people who died for who they were.
Rwamucyo was accused of spreading anti-Tutsi propaganda and supervising operations to bury victims in mass graves.
He denied survivors were buried alive and was arrested in a suburb north of Paris in 2010.
Jean Bosco Baravagwiza, considered one of the masterminds of the genocide, was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2003.
