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Crimes Against Humanity: Jacques Mungwarere

Jacques Mungwarere: OTTAWA - A man who came to Canada in 2001 as a refugee from the terrible Rwandan slaughters of 1994 has been acquitted on charges that he participated in the very genocide he fled. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. He was acquitted on one count of genocide by murder, and on one count of crimes against humanity by murder, after a 26-week trial by judge alone. Jacques Mungwarere and Justice Charbonneau are shown in a courtroom in Ottawa on Monday, May 28, 2012. Mungwarere has been acquitted of genocide in Canada's second trial under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act on Friday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sarah Wallace Former school teacher Jacques Mungwarere was found not guilty Friday in Canada's second trial under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.