Two Rwanda genocide survivors testify in the first Brussels trial
Martine Beckers who lost her sister, brother-in-law, and niece during the Rwandan genocide poses next to the pictures of the deceased as she answers the journalist during interview in Limelette, on November 5, 2019. The trial of Fabien Neretse, accused of war crimes during the Rwanda Genocide in 1994, opened at the Assizes Court of Brussels Capital on November 4, 2019. PHOTO | AFP
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It was April 9, 1994, three days after assassination of Rwanda’s Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana that was the trigger for the genocide, “We begged them to let us live,” Nkaka, survivor, said
