A Rwandan man accused of genocide is due to start trial today in Ottawa.
39 year old Jacques Mungwarere was arrested in the town of Windsor in 2009.
The former school teacher is accused of leading and participating in mass killings, including massacres in churches and a hospital.
Mungwarere is the second Rwandan prosecuted under Canada’s Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act, which allows prosecution, irrespective of where and when the crimes were committed.
He was caught after a childhood friend recognised him on a bus in Windsor and alerted the authorities.
Over 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died during 3 months of violence in the 1994 genocide.