Claver Berinkindi was today found guilty of genocide and gross violation of international law.
The Stockholm district court said the 61-year-old was an informal low-level Hutu leader who took part in massacres of civilians in Muyira and Butare in southern Rwanda.
Rwandan authorities initially wanted to prosecute him there but since he's a Swedish citizen he couldn't be extradited.
Berinkindi came to Sweden as a refugee in 2002 and became a Swedish citizen 10 years later.
Some 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, were killed by Hutu extremists during the Rwandan genocide, according to the UN.
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