
一名被指控犯下多项与1994年卢旺达种族灭绝相关的罪行的医生,预计将于明年秋季接受审判。
A doctor accused of a number of offences relating to the 1994 Rwanda genocide is set to face trial in autumn next year.
现年65岁的文森特·布朗医生,原名文森特·巴吉尼亚,被指控“杀害、指挥或纵容”卢旺达图西族民众的死亡。他是英国首位因种族灭绝罪被起诉的人。
Dr Vincent Brown, formerly Dr Vincent Bajinya, 65, is accused of "killing, directing or encouraging" the deaths of members of the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda. He is the first person in the UK to have been charged over the genocide.
居住在伦敦北部伊斯灵顿的布朗被控一项与种族灭绝相关的罪行以及六项属于反人类罪的谋杀相关罪行。
Brown, of Islington, north London, is charged with one count of conduct ancillary to genocide and six offences of conduct ancillary to murder as a crime against humanity.
法官已初步定于2027年10月开始对他的审判。布朗坚称自己无罪,目前尚未正式认罪。
A judge has now set his provisional trial date to begin in October 2027. He denies wrongdoing and has not yet entered a plea.
上周五,布朗通过视频连线从贝尔马什监狱参加了在老贝利法庭举行的预审听证会。法官切玛-格鲁布在会上初步确定审判将于2027年10月4日开始,预计持续8至12周。另一次认罪及案件管理听证会则定于1月15日举行。
The defendant appeared via video link from Belmarsh prison on Friday for a pre-trial hearing at the Old Bailey during which Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb set a provisional eight to 12-week trial from October 4 2027. A plea and case management hearing has also been set for 15 January. He has indicated he will plead not guilty to the charges against him.
据估计,在持续100天的1994年卢旺达种族灭绝事件中,约有80万名图西族及持温和政治立场的胡图族人遇害。
An estimated 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed during the 1994 Rwanda genocide which lasted for 100 days.
布朗是一名医生,20世纪80年代在卢旺达获得行医资格。后来他担任了基加利市家庭健康部门的负责人,与妻子及年幼的儿子一同居住在当地。据指控,1994年4月6日至13日期间,他参与了6起谋杀案。经过英国方面长达7年的调查后,他最终被起诉。
Brown is a medical doctor who qualified in Rwanda in the 1980s. He later became head of the country's Department of Family Health in Kigali and lived in a suburb there with his wife and young son. Between April 6 and 13 1994, he was allegedly a party to six murders and was later charged following a seven-year British investigation into the killings.
听证会上还透露,今年10月法院曾要求布朗缴纳10万英镑的保释金,但至今尚未缴纳。
The court heard on Friday that a £100,000 bail condition, imposed earlier in October, had not yet been met.
检察官比尔·埃姆林·琼斯在法庭上指出,1994年发生的惨案是“现代历史上最具破坏性的大规模杀戮事件”。他补充道:“在种族灭绝发生的最初几天和几周内,仅基加利一地就有10万人惨遭杀害。”
Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC told the court the events in 1994 were "the most devastating wave of mass killing in modern history". Jones said: "One hundred thousand were murdered in Kigali especially in the first days and weeks of the genocide."