A Genocide Trial in Paris

It took 20 years for France to bring to justice one of the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide who have taken refuge on its soil. On Friday, a judge in Paris found Pascal Simbikangwa, a former Rwandan intelligence chief, guilty of genocide and of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 people, most of them Tutsis and some moderate Hutus. The court sentenced Mr. Simbikangwa to 25 years in prison, ignoring his claim that he never even saw a dead body during the carnage.