Rwanda genocide suspect handed to UN

  1. Posted on Monday 5 July 2010 - 12:32
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    Ryekolal Raphie, AfricaNews reporter in Kampala, Uganda
    Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi, the Rwandan genocide suspect arrested Wednesday in Uganda, has been transferred to the UN tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, an official said Sunday.
    Rwanda at the Genocide Memorial near Gikongoro. Photo: Jan Bierkens
    The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda spokesman Roland Amoussouga told AFP that he arrived on Friday late in the day. He will appear before a judge very shortly.

    Jean-Bosco was indicted by the UN-backed ICTR for genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity in 2001. Until his arrest in western Uganda on Wednesday, Uwinkindi was among 11 suspects still at large and wanted by the ICTR, based in Tanzania's northern town of Arusha

    The charge sheet said Uwinkindi was based at the Pentecostal church in Kayenzi in Kanzenze east of the capital Kigali at the time of the genocide, from April to July 1994.

    He is accused of having brought militia to kill Tutsis in Kanzenze and of sheltering Tutsi women and children in his church then ordering for them to be killed.

    The US State Department offered a reward of 5 million dollars for information leading to his arrest.

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