Wichita lawyer faces Rwanda threat

Published June 8, 2010 at 12:40 p.m.

A timely letter from Kansas may have kept a Wichita lawyer out of jail last week in central Africa.

Kurt Kerns has traveled to Rwanda during the past year to interview witnesses in a federal case in Wichita involving a Kansas man accused of participating in that country's genocide 16 years ago.

As part of that case, Kerns had consulted with Peter Erlinder, a law professor from Minnesota, whose opinions on the genocide were critical of the current Rwandan government.

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