First UK charges brought over 1994 Rwanda genocide
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The Metropolitan Police said the charges follow "a complex and extensive seven-year investigation" A Rwandan man, who has been living in north London, has become the first person charged in the UK with offences relating to the 1994 Rwanda genocide, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.
大都会警察局表示，这些指控是在“一项复杂而广泛的七年调查”之后提出的。 英国皇家检察署 (CPS) 表示，一名居住在伦敦北部的卢旺达男子成为在英国被指控犯有 1994 年卢旺达种族灭绝罪的第一人。
Dr Vincent Brown, formerly Dr Vincent Bajinya, 65, has been charged with one offence of conduct ancillary to genocide and six offences of conduct ancillary to murder as a crime against humanity.
文森特·布朗博士（原名文森特·巴金亚博士）现年 65 岁，被指控犯有一项危害人类罪的种族灭绝罪和六项谋杀罪。
Frank Ferguson, head of the CPS's Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said Brown "is alleged to have directed and incited acts of murder and genocide carried out by others".
CPS特别犯罪和反恐部门负责人弗兰克·弗格森表示，布朗“被指控指挥和煽动他人实施谋杀和种族灭绝行为”。
Brown will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
布朗将于周二出现在威斯敏斯特地方法院。
Ferguson said the decision to charge Brown was made "after reviewing a file of evidence submitted by the War Crimes Team at the Metropolitan Police".
弗格森表示，指控布朗的决定是“在审查了伦敦警察厅战争罪小组提交的证据档案后”做出的。
"We concluded that our legal test for bringing criminal charges had been met," he added.
他补充说：“我们的结论是，我们已经满足了提起刑事指控的法律标准。”
The War Crimes Team began their investigation in September 2019 after a formal request from the Rwandan government to investigate people allegedly involved in a genocide in the Rugenge district of Kigali in April 1994.
在卢旺达政府正式请求调查涉嫌参与 1994 年 4 月基加利鲁根格区种族灭绝事件的人员后，战争罪小组于 2019 年 9 月开始调查。
Over the course of 100 days in 1994, an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus people were killed in Rwanda by Hutu extremists.
1994 年的 100 天内，估计有 80 万图西族和政治上温和的胡图族人在卢旺达被胡图族极端分子杀害。
They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin.
他们的目标是少数民族图西族社区的成员及其政治对手，无论其种族出身如何。
The mainly Tutsi forces who took power following the genocide were alleged to have killed thousands of Hutu people in Rwanda in retaliation.
种族灭绝事件后掌权的主要是图西族军队据称在卢旺达杀害了数千名胡图族人作为报复。
The Metropolitan Police said the charges against Brown follow "a complex and extensive seven-year investigation".
大都会警察局表示，对布朗的指控是在“一项复杂而广泛的七年调查”之后进行的。
Commander Helen Flanagan, head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, said: "This case demonstrates the UK is not a safe haven for individuals suspected of committing international crimes.
伦敦反恐警务负责人海伦·弗拉纳根指挥官表示：“这起案件表明，英国并不是涉嫌实施国际犯罪的个人的避风港。
"The War Crimes Teams remains committed to ensuring those suspected of involvement in genocide and other atrocity crimes are held accountable through due legal process.
“战争罪小组仍然致力于确保通过正当法律程序追究那些涉嫌参与种族灭绝和其他暴行罪的人的责任。
"A number of other investigations remain ongoing into other individuals in the UK for similar offences related to the genocide in Rwanda."
“针对英国其他个人与卢旺达种族灭绝相关的类似罪行的其他一些调查仍在进行中。”
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