A Belgian jury has found two Rwandan men guilty of helping Hutu militias slaughter some 50,000 people during a 1994 genocide in Rwanda that killed hundreds of thousands.
The jury gave its verdict after some 12 hours of deliberations.
It found the two men guilty of nearly all charges made against them. The pair, who are half brothers and were successful businessmen in southeast Rwanda, had insisted on their innocence.
They were tried under a controversial law that empowers Belgium's courts to try war crimes suspects even if they are not Belgian, and their crimes were committed abroad.
Suspects must be resident in Belgium, Rwanda's colonial master before the African country gained independence in 1962.
