Rwanda genocide suspect is arrested
A Rwandan accused of coordinating the massacre of as many as 25,000 people in one incident has been arrested in France, the United Nations said.
Dominique Ntawukuriryayo was detained by French police in the southern town of Carcassonne this week and is to be transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, in the coming days.
Ntawukuriryayo was sub-prefect of the town of Gisagara in the southern province of Butare during the 1994 genocide in which an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
He is charged with genocide, complicity in genocide and inciting the public to commit genocide.
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