approximately three thousand Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Prosecutors allege that in April 1994, N. engaged in a "rampage of looting and destruction" — torching houses and plundering possessions — before victims who had sought refuge in a football stadium in Mbazi, southern Rwanda were systematically slaughtered. They claim N. was "personally involved" in the killings, including personally throwing a grenade into the stadium, and have requested a life sentence. One prosecutor argued that if crimes of this magnitude don't merit a life sentence, nothing does. The 1994 genocide claimed an estimated 800,000 lives over roughly three months, most of them from the Tutsi minority, according to UN figures. N. denies all charges, describing himself as a victim who lost dozens of relatives in "those horrific events." His lawyers urged acquittal, arguing he did "everything to prevent the genocide" and that the case has made him "a broken man”.  N. fled to the Netherlands in 1998. Rwanda issued an international arrest warrant in 2014, but under Dutch law he cannot be extradited as he holds Dutch nationality. Dutch prosecutors opened their own investigation in 2020, interviewing dozens of witnesses in Rwanda, and arrested N. in 2024. The case is part of a broader pattern: European courts have convicted several dozen people involved in the Rwandan genocide under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows courts to hear the most serious crimes even when committed abroad. (Bssnews)