Ugandan president calls for hangings in Rwanda

The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, has said the organisers of the 1994 massacres in neighbouring Rwanda shoud be hanged.

In a speech at a conference at Rwanda's National University in Butare, Mr Museveni said life imprisonment was not enough for those who planned the massacres of around one-million Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Mr Museveni criticism was levelled against the ban on death penalty at the United Nations International Tribunal in Tanzania, which is trying those accused of genocide in Rwanda.

The Tribunal holds only twenty-three people in custody, while tens of thousands Hutus charged with genocide are being held in prisons inside Rwanda.

Mr Museveni has now ended his two-day visit to Rwanda.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service