Rwanda agrees to hand over Belgian genocide suspect News
Rwanda agrees to hand over Belgian genocide suspect

[JURIST] The Belgian Foreign Ministry [official website] said Tuesday that Rwanda has agreed to hand over Guy Theunis, a Belgian Catholic priest accused [JURIST report] of helping incite the 1994 Rwandan genocide [JURIST news archive], to the Belgian government. Last month, Karel de Gucht [official profile], Belgium's foreign minister, formally requested [JURIST report] that Theunis be transferred to Belgium to face trial for his alleged involvement in the genocide. Thus far, Theunis has denied any involvement in the 1994 killings. Reuters has more.

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Ku Klux Klan founded

The US hate group known as the Ku Klux Klan was founded on December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee as a reaction to reconstruction efforts following the Union victory in the American Civil War. The group would later become notorious for its attacks on Black Americans, being targeted by the Enforcement Act of 1871, which imposed civil and criminal liability for deprivation of constitutional rights. Read the Enforcement Act of 1871.  

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