A Genocide convict serving a life sentence yesterday told a Norwegian court that Sadi Bugingo attended meetings preparing the Genocide, killed and looted during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.Bugingo is currently standing trial for crimes of Genocide in Oslo.The witness gave his testimony via a video-link from Kigali to a court in session in the Norwegian capital.“I remember very well he attended the final meeting where a major plan of massacring Tutsis was announced…I also remember him at Economat Général of Kibungo Diocese, where I found him standing next to dead bodies holding a pistol,” the witness recounted.Economat General was a retail store operated by the Catholic Church.The witness whose name remains protected on orders of the court, added that Genocide at Economat Général was well organised and that Bugingo attended the organising meeting.“I was part of the organisers of the attack and the genocide at Economat, although by the time I reached there, about 1,200 people had already been killed, I remember very well I found Bugingo there,” the convict added.He accused Bugingo of looting a generator that weighed about 500kg from Economat which he took to his house. Bugingo, whose trial started a month ago, is also accused of participating in the killings at Commune Birenga and at Kibungo Hospital where he is particularly alleged to have kidnapped people from the hospital and killed them.The witness who spoke yesterday however said that he never saw the suspect at Commune Birenga where about 1,000 people were killed and at the hospital.“Not seeing him there doesn’t necessarily mean that he never went there… we were attacking in large numbers and sometimes you would not easily notice whoever was with you in the group,” said the convict.The witness, who gave a detailed insight on how the Genocide was prepared and implemented, is expected to continue his testimony today.
