A former MP is among 10 people sentenced to death in a ruling on genocide by a court in the northwestern town of Gisenyi, Rwandan radio reported on Saturday. It said Wellars Banzi, who was an MP under the former regime and an ex-chairman of the Mouvement republicain national pour le developpement (MRND), was among 54 people on trial for genocide. Twenty three others were sentenced to life imprisonment. He was found guilty of "inciting ethnic division" through articles he wrote for the extremist 'Kangura' newspaper.