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Extradited pastor pleads not guilty

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    A genocide suspect extradited from the United States last week pleaded not guilty on Friday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, the Internews agency reported. Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, former pastor of a Seventh Day Adventist Church in Kibuye prefecture, was the first person the US has extradited to a non-sovereign entity such as an international court, Internews said. The 76-year-old pastor is accused of having urged Tutsis to hide in his church during the 1994 genocide and then summoning Hutus to kill them, it reported.

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