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The Eastern High Court has thrown out a charge of genocide against a Rwandan on remand in Denmark, because it says that the country’s 1955 genocide legislation cannot be used for the crime when it has been committed abroad.
“In the text of the law or its preparatory texts there is no basis to assume that the law was designed to do more than was necessary to fulfil obligations and thus give the law extra-territorial jurisdiction,” the court statement said referring to the Convention on Genocide.
