Juvénal Habyarimana

The first week of the genocide saw more than eight hundred thousand Tutsis and moderate Hutus killed in hundred days of massacre orchestrated by the Hutus' ruling majority.

According to prosecutor Jane Stanfield, Brown was head of the Department of Family Health within Rwanda's National Office of Population when genocide began following the killing of Presidential Juvenal.

The court heard that Brown is, is accused of acting as the leader and supervisor of physical acts of violence, which were carried out by others with evidence from witnesses, including his neighbors.

He's specifically accused of ordering six murders in four days, including the murder of a young mother and her baby son.

After three years of armed conflict, opposing political leaders brokered and signed the Arusha Peace Agreement, bringing with it the hope for an end to the violence.

But on April 6th, 1994, Rwanda's Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was assassinated when his plane was shot down.

And for the next 100 days, beautiful Rwanda, known as the land of a thousand hills, was hell on earth.

Thirty years ago this week, the genocide against the Tutsi came to an end almost as quickly as it had begun.