Ex-Rwandan mayors to face trial in Paris over 1994 genocide

Two former Rwandan mayors go on trial in France on Tuesday facing charges of crimes against humanity and genocide over the 1994 massacres in the central African country.

The second trial in Paris by a special court created to go after suspected Rwandan killers who fled to France is expected to lay bare the strained relations between the two countries.

Two decades on, Rwanda accuses France of complicity in the genocide - in which at least 800,000 people died in a 100-day slaughter - because of its unwavering support for the Hutu nationalist government at the time.