A Rwandan court on Monday found Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotel manager credited with saving the lives of hundreds of people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, guilty on terrorism charges.
"They should be found guilty for being part of this terror group – MRCD-FLN," said Judge Beatrice Mukamurenzi.
"They attacked people in their homes, or even in their cars on the road travelling," she added.
Rusesabagina’s story of saving people being hunted down during the genocide by sheltering them in the hotel he worked in, became a major motion picture, with Don Cheadle playing him.
During the Rwandan Genocide, Rwandans killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus over a period of less than 100 days.
Rusesabagina, 67, had criticised President Paul Kagame from exile in the past.
He had denied all the charges and said he was kidnapped from Dubai to stand trial.
