PARIS (AP) — With a hoist from two bailiffs, Rwanda’s disabled former intelligence chief was placed in a courtroom wheelchair Tuesday — and France opened its first trial over the African country’s genocide.

The trial of Pascal Simbikangwa, 54, may not reveal much new about the systematic killing of ethnic Tutsis and Hutu moderates by radical Hutus in 1994. Books on the genocide have been written, rivers of tears shed, and documentary films made. A U.N. war crimes tribunal and other courts have already sent dozens to prison — some for life.

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