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Former Rwandan official accused of supervising massacre of 5,000 Tutsi

The international tribunal in Tanzania investigating the genocide in Rwanda has heard a witness give evidence against a former official accused of involvement in one of the worst episodes of the slaughter.

The witness testified to the court in Arusha that the official, Clement Kayishema, then head of Kibuye province, ordered and supervised the killing of five-thousand Tutsis in the Catholic church in Mubuga in April 1994.

The case against Mr Kayishema continues.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service