Arusha, Tanzania - The UN Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan, who was in charge of UN peacekeeping operations during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, yesterday sat in on the trial of an officer accused of promoting the slaughter.
Mr Annan, in Tanzania as part of an eight-nation African tour, was visiting the headquarters of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the court set up by the UN to try the chief suspects of the central African country's genocide.
He sat in on a hearing involving Col Anatole Nsengiyumva, who is accused of direct public incitement to commit genocide and two charges of crimes against humanity.