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Two Rwandan Hutu leaders on trial accused of masterminding atrocities in DRC

(4 May 2011) ++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: THE DEFENDANTS FACES ARE PIXELATED THROUGHOUT THE EDIT++ 1. Mid interior of the court, where the trial of two Rwandans charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes in Congo is taking place 2. Wide of court officials 3. Close up of court folders 4. Various of court 5. Defendant Ignace Murwanashyaka walking into the court 6. Cutaway cameras 7. Close up of Murwanashyaka 8. Mid of a court official 9. Mid of Murwanashyaka, zoom out to other defendant Straton Musoni 10. Wide of court officials 11. Mid of Straton Musoni 12. Wide of court audience 13. Close up of Murwanashyaka 14. Wide of court sign 15. Session starting, everybody sitting down 16. Close up of court official 17. Mid of women in audience 18. Wide of court session 19. Mid of Murwanashyaka sitting down, during session 20. Wide of court shot through door 21. Security closing the court's door 22. Various exteriors of the court STORYLINE: The trial of two Rwandans, charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes for violence carried out against civilians in Congo has opened in southern Germany on Wednesday. German prosecutors have charged Ignace Murwanashyaka, 47 and Straton Musoni, 49, with leading a mostly ethnic Hutu militia to kill more than 200 people, carry out numerous rapes and force children to serve as soldiers in the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. It was not immediately clear if the men would address the court at the opening on Wednesday. Their faces were pixelated in the footage of the trial in accordance with a court order. Both men were living in Germany at the time of their November 2009 arrest. The men allegedly served as the top military leaders of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda militia, known by its French acronym FDLR. They are alleged to have exercised "significant influence" over the militia as it carried out acts of war in Congo. Founded in the Congolese city of Lubumbashi in 2000, the FDLR is a group made up of Hutu refugees from Rwanda who took cover across the border in Congo after the 1994 genocide in which more than 500-thousand people were killed, mostly ethnic Tutsis but also moderate Hutus. The German prosecutors' statement said the FDLR is operating from eastern Congo and trying to bring down Rwanda's government. Murwanashyaka allegedly served as FDLR's president from 2001 and Musoni served as vice president from 2004, and the pair controlled the militia group from Germany, prosecutors said. The two defendants are specifically held responsible for 26 crimes against humanity and 39 war crimes that were committed by militiamen under their command in Congo from January 2008 to November 2009, the statement said. The Stuttgart trial is the first in Germany to be carried out under the principle of universal jurisdiction that allows states to pursue foreigners for crimes carried out abroad. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...