UN prosecutor charges former Rwandan minister with contempt

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A United Nations prosecutor has charged a former Rwandan planning minister with contempt of court for allegedly bribing witnesses to recant testimony in an attempt to overturn his genocide convictions.
Prosecutor Serge Brammertz released the indictment against Augustin Ngirabatware on Friday outlining attempts to pay off a group of witnesses.
Ngirabatware was convicted by a U.N. tribunal of involvement in his country’s 1994 genocide and sentenced on appe