The Guardian Weekly

Fugitive arrested in South Africa over 1994 genocide

One of the world’s most wanted genocide suspects, a former police chief, Fulgence Kayishema, was arrested in South Africa and charged with playing a leading role in the murder of more than 2,000 people in a church in April 1994.

Kayishema has spent more than two decades as a fugitive and was living under a false name at the time of his arrest in Paarl, north-east of Cape Town. He was detained by the South African police and members of a tracking team from the Rwandan war crimes tribunal based in Arusha, Tanzania.

Kayishema, 62, was one of four suspects indicted by the tribunal who were still not accounted for, from a total of 96 indicted.

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