KIGALI, Rwanda - Rwanda will release more than 8,000 prisoners convicted or awaiting trial in the country's 1994 genocide, many of them elderly and sick, the justice minister said.
There have been several similar prisoner releases since 2003, when President Paul Kagame ordered them as part of an effort to decongest Rwanda's crowded prisons and promote reconciliation. Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama said Friday the new releases will begin in February.
Some 63,000 genocide suspects are detained in Rwanda, and justice authorities say at least 761,000 people should stand trial for their role in the 100-day slaughter, in which more than 500,000 minority Tutsis were …
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