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US deports Rwanda genocide suspect Leopold Munyakazi
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Ann Marie Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 29 Sep 2016 06:45:59 -0500
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September 28, 2016
BBC News Africa

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About 800,000 people were killed in the Rwandan genocide, the first in
Africa

The US has deported a Rwandan academic, accused of being a key figure in
the 1994 genocide, to his home country.

Leopold Munyakazi's deportation came after he lost a long-running legal
battle to gain asylum in the US.

He is accused of wearing banana leaves during the genocide to identify
himself as a Hutu, and of organising night raids on the homes of families
from the rival Tutsi ethnic group.

Mr Munyakazi, a former university professor, has denied the allegations.

Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu militias in
just 100 days in 1994

Mr Munyakazi fled to the US in 2004.

Rwanda has since demanded his extradition, saying it wanted to try him on
charges of genocide and conspiracy to committing genocide.

He has been accused, by the government-backed National Commission for the
Fight against Genocide, of ordering Hutu militiamen to hunt down Tutsis and
of personally shooting dead a man named Ugirashebuja Felicien Kirwa in the
area of Kirwa in south-eastern Rwanda.

The commission also accuses him of promoting hatred and writing an article
in 1991 in which he called for Tutsis to be given only 10% representation
in schools and jobs.

Mr Munyakazi insists that he is a moderate Hutu who helped Tutsis during
the genocide.








-- 
Ann Marie

"The art of living consists of knowing what to pay attention to and what to
ignore."  -- Mardy Grothe

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