Rwandan genocide accused Fulgence Kayishema, 62, appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Friday, after the Hawks arrested him in Paarl on Thursday morning. | itchybyte
He faces charges of genocide and conspiracy to commit genocide.Rwandan genocide accused Fulgence Kayishema, 62, appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Friday, after the Hawks arrested him in Paarl on Thursday morning.
Prosecutor Nathan Adriaanse said:"This centres on the slaughter of more than 2 000 people that happened in Rwanda in 1994."The former police chief of Kivuma is accused of participating in the rounding up of Tutsis at a church where they were set alight.
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