Rwanda genocide suspect arrested in Europe

Middle East News.Net
Tuesday 8th July, 2008

A genocide suspect from the Rwanda uprising in 1994 has been arrested in Germany.

Callixte Mbarushimana, a hutu, is allegedly responsible for the deaths of several tutsi tribespeople.

He was arrested at Frankfurt airport, where he wanted to take a flight to St. Petersburg in Russia.

Mr Mbarushimana has already been arrested by the Rwanda tribunal in the Tanzanian city of Arusha.

At the time, he worked as a UN official in Kosovo.

A year later the tribunal dropped the prosecution case due to lack of evidence but recently had issued an international warrant for his arrest.

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