UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- A former Rwandan minister facing charges of genocide was transferred Wednesday from Germany's Frankfurt to the UN war crimes tribunal in Tanzania, said the United Nations on its website.

    Augustin Ngirabatware, who used to serve as Rwanda's minister of planning, was arrested in Germany last September and faces nine charges including genocide and crimes against humanity for murder, extermination and rape in the 1994 massacres in Rwanda.

    An estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed during a 100-day period starting in early April 1994.