The wheelchair of former Rwandan army captain Pascal Simbikangwa is seen before the start of his trial at Paris court February 4, 2014. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
PARIS (Reuters) - Rwanda's former intelligence director denied charges of crimes against humanity and complicity in the 1994 genocide and told a Paris court on Wednesday he did not participate in "the descent into chaos" in his homeland.
On the second day of the high-profile trial, Pascal Simbikangwa sought to minimise his role in the three-month wave of bloodletting that killed some 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. 7
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