俄亥俄州男子因在卢旺达大屠杀中所扮演角色撒谎而在美国被定罪波士顿，10月28日——一名出生于卢旺达的俄亥俄州男子被美国法院定罪，罪名是他在2019年的一次刑事审判中作伪证，这是他长达数十年、旨在隐瞒自己参与1994年卢旺达大屠杀的阴谋的一部分。
Ohio man convicted in US of lying about role in Rwandan genocide BOSTON, Oct 28 - A Rwandan-born Ohio man has been convicted of US charges that he lied during a 2019 criminal trial as part of a decades-long scheme to conceal his involvement in the African nation's 1994 genocide.
波士顿的一个联邦陪审团周二裁定埃里克·恩希米耶（Eric Nshimiye）作伪证和妨碍司法罪名成立，这些指控源于他在早前一名前同学的移民欺诈案审判中所作的证词。该同学同样被控参与了那场暴行。
A federal jury in Boston on Tuesday found Eric Nshimiye guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice charges stemming from testimony he gave during the earlier immigration fraud trial of a former classmate who was also accused of participating in the atrocities.
据美国联邦检察官利亚·福利的发言人介绍，现年54岁的恩希米耶定于1月26日宣判。他的律师未回应置评请求。
Nshimiye, 54, is scheduled to be sentenced on January 26, according to a spokesperson for US Attorney Leah Foley. His lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.
恩希米耶自1995年以难民身份获准入境以来一直居住在美国。他于2003年成为美国公民。2024年被捕时，他住在俄亥俄州尤宁敦，在固特异轮胎橡胶公司担任工程师。
Nshimiye has lived in the United States since 1995, when he gained admission as a refugee. He became a US citizen in 2003. At the time of his arrest in 2024, he was working as an engineer for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co while living in Uniontown, Ohio.
检方称，恩希米耶伪造并隐瞒了关于自己的信息，以掩盖他曾参与胡图族强硬派政权在其祖国卢旺达为期三个月的屠杀行动，该行动导致约80万图西族人和温和派胡图族人丧生。
Prosecutors said Nshimiye falsified and concealed information about himself to hide that he participated in the massacre by the hard-line Hutu regime of an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus during three months of slaughter in his native Rwanda.
检方援引证人称，暴力爆发时，恩希米耶正在布塔雷，他当时与同学让·莱昂纳尔·特加尼亚（Jean Leonard Teganya）一起在那里读大学，是一名医科学生。
Citing witnesses, prosecutors alleged that when the violence broke out, Nshimiye was in Butare, where he had been attending university as a medical student along with his classmate Jean Leonard Teganya.
检方称，两人都属于协助实施那场大屠杀的政党，并称恩希米耶在暴力期间袭击图西族人，并将图西族人交出去任其遭到强奸或杀害。
Prosecutors said both men belonged to the political party that helped perpetrate the genocide, and that Nshimiye during the violence attacked Tutsis and handed Tutsis over to be raped or killed.
然而，在2019年特加尼亚案审判中作为辩方证人出庭时，恩希米耶否认自己参与了大屠杀，也否认自己是执政的、以胡图族人为主的政党——全国革命发展运动的成员。
Yet when called as a defense witness in Teganya's 2019 trial, Nshimiye denied participating in the genocide or being a member of the ruling Hutu-dominated party, the National Revolutionary Movement for Development.
特加尼亚被判作伪证和签证欺诈罪名成立，并于2019年晚些时候被判处八年多监禁。
Teganya was convicted of perjury and visa fraud charges and was sentenced later in 2019 to more than eight years in prison.
辩护律师库尔特·克恩斯在10月13日的开场陈述中告诉陪审团，对恩西米耶的指控是基于“捏造的指控”，而且在暴力事件开始时他根本不在布塔雷。
Defense attorney Kurt Kerns told jurors in his opening statement on October 13 that the charges against Nshimiye were based on "fabricated accusations" and that he was not even in Butare when the violence began.
克恩斯辩称，检方只有在恩西米耶为帮助朋友、在特加尼亚的案件中作品格证人而出庭作证后才对其提起指控。
Kerns argued prosecutors only charged Nshimiye after he stepped up to help a friend by testifying as a character witness in Teganya's case.
“当时，他相信美国的司法体系会保护他，”克恩斯说。“而在本次审判过程中，你们会看到，这种信任被背叛了。”——路透社
"At the time, he trusted that the American system of justice would protect him," Kerns said. "And that trust, you'll see in the course of that trial, was betrayed." REUTERS