A Catholic priest accused of killing Rwandans in the 1994 genocide has gone on trial at the UN War Crimes Tribunal in Tanzania.
Father Athanase Seromba, 41, is accused of ordering collaborators to bulldoze a church in which 2,000 Tutsis were hiding.
Fr Seromba is the first Catholic priest to face charges at the tribunal in connection with the genocide, in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were butchered by Hutu extremists in 100 days. However, he is not the first clergyman.
The priest has pleaded not guilty to charges including genocide and crimes against humanity, and his trial began without him as he refused to leave his detention cell.
