Rwandan Hutu Joseph Mpambara pleaded not guilty to committing rape and murder during the Rwandan genocide at a court in The Hague late on Monday.

The public prosecution department says Mpambara was involved in the mass murder of Tutsi refugees in a complex of the Seventh Day Adventists in Rwanda, the murder of seven passengers who were dragged out of an ambulance, and the rape and torture of a German doctor, his wife and their baby.
Mpambara, who came to the Netherlands in 1997 as a refugee, was arrested in 2006 after his application for asylum was turned down.
He is being prosecuted under a law that allows war crimes commited overseas to go through the Dutch domestic court system.
The Hague is also home to the UN’s international tribunal for Rwanda which asked the district court to hear this case.
The public prosecution department says the case will go until mid-November.