Once the mass murder of their people began, Safari Jean Bosco and his mother, sister and brothers sought refuge in a Catholic church along with over 2,000 others packed into the building. Some prayed as hungry mothers strained to breastfeed.
By April 12, 1994, six days after the genocide against Tutsis by an extremist Hutu regime began, militia surrounded the church. Soon afterward Bosco saw local police inspector Fulgence Kayishema in a meeting with the parish priest and others.
On Wednesday, after 21 years on the run from his genocide indictment over the church massacre by the international Rwanda war crimes tribunal, Kayishema was"The arrest of Kayishema was eagerly awaited. May justice prevail," said Bosco, now 67, who survived the bulldozing by hiding under some of the bodies of the 2,000 victims.
"We just thank God and the government that he was caught," said Rwamasirabo, who helped build a memorial at the site of the church. "We want him to come and see how the place looks now despite what he has done to it."
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