Hawks, Interpol have arrested a fugitive for the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The former police inspector ‘Donatien Nibashumba’ (61) was found at a farm in Paarl, Western Cape.
One of the world’s most wanted genocide fugitives, Fulgence Kayishema, has been arrested in South Africa after being on the run for 22 years, a special tribunal set up by the United Nations said Thursday.
According to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Kayishema was arrested Wednesday in Paarl, a small town in a wine-making region about 30 miles east of Cape Town, South Africa.
Kayishema, who is believed to be in his early 60s, had assumed a false identity and gone by the name Donatien Nibashumba.
According to CNN, the tribunal disclosed that he was captured in a joint operation by the tribunal’s fugitive tracking team and South African authorities.
Kayishema, who is believed to be in his early 60s, had assumed a false identity and gone by the name Donatien Nibashumba, South African police said.
He was captured in a joint operation by the tribunal’s fugitive tracking team and South African authorities, the tribunal said, following an investigation that had tracked him across several African countries, including Mozambique and Eswatini, since his indictment in 2001.
The United States had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to Kayishema’s arrest through its Rewards for Justice program.
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