Rwanda genocide accused granted £100 000 bail

A man accused of offences relating to the 1994 Rwanda genocide will remain in custody unless he pays the court a £100 000 guarantee, reports BBC News. Dr Vincent Brown, formerly Dr Vincent Bajiny, was allegedly a ‘leader’ or ‘supervisor’ of violent acts carried out by others and is the first person in the UK to be charged over the genocide. At the Old Bailey on Monday, Judge Mark Lucraft KC granted conditional bail with stricter conditions than at a previous hearing, including the increased surety and electronic monitoring. Brown is accused of ‘killing, directing or encouraging’ the deaths of members of the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda. He denies wrongdoing. Three members of the same house were allegedly murdered, along with a taxi driver, a mother and her young son between 6 and 13 April. The alleged victims were Dominique Mukurarinda, Immaculee Mukankusi, Gerasi Rurangirwa, Leandre Mbogoye, Charlotte Kamaguja and Olivier Tuyishime. Brown was charged following a seven-year British investigation into the killings. Brown was also ordered to surrender his passport and any national identity cards, not to apply for international travel documents and was told he must abide by a curfew to live and sleep at his London address. He would also be electronically monitored and have to report daily to police. Brown is a medical doctor who qualified in Rwanda in the 1980s. An estimated 800 000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed during the 1994 Rwanda genocide which lasted for 100 days.

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