The suspected mastermind of ordering the killing of at least 2,000 Tutsi seeking refuge in a Catholic parish during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has been arrested in South Africa.
According to the Reuters reports, Fulgence Kayishema, a 62-year-old ex-policeman is one of the main suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which claimed an estimated 800,000 lives, was arrested on Wednesday, May 24 at a grape farm in South Africa while using the assumed name by Donatien Nibashumba.
The suspect has been on the run since 2001 when the now-defunct International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) charged him with genocide for his role in the destruction and massacre of St. Paul’s Nyange parish in the Diocese of Nyundo.
Serge Brammertz, prosecutor for the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), the UN body that took over the role of the ICTR, said the arrest “guarantees that he will finally face justice for his alleged crimes.”
After confirming the arrest, an elite South African police unit known as the Hawks, reported that the suspect will soon be extradited to Rwanda, after appearing before Bellville Magistrates Court in South Africa.