From CNN: Rwandan nuns guilty of war crimes

[A. Melon]

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Two Rwandan nuns found guilty of war crimes during 
the 1994 genocide are awaiting sentencing.

The defendants are scheduled to be sentenced in court on Friday. They face 
a maximum of life imprisonment. 

In a landmark trial in Belgium, a 12-member-jury found the two Catholic 
nuns, a university professor and a former government minister, guilty 
early on Friday of helping Hutu militia massacre thousands of Tutsi 
refugees. 

The trial, which lasted almost eight weeks, was the first in which a jury 
of ordinary citizens had sat in judgment of war crimes committed in 
another country. 

A 1993 Belgian law gives Belgian courts jurisdiction over violations of 
the Geneva Convention on war crimes, no matter where they were committed. 

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>From http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/06/08/rwanda.verdict/index.html