San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
BELGIUM NABS 3 SUSPECTED IN RWANDAN GENOCIDE
Three men suspected of involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide were arrested in Belgium this past week, according to Belgian authorities, the latest in a series of captures linked to the 100-day bloodbath in which as many as 1 million people were killed.
A spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said that the men were arrested Tuesday and Wednesday, and that two of the suspects remained in detention while the third was put under electronic surveillance.
“The investigation is still ongoing, and the prosecutor’s office will determine whether the men should face trial,” said the spokesman, Eric Van der Sypt.
He declined to provide details about the identities of the men, who were charged with serious abuse of human rights.
The arrests, which were reported by the Belgian weekly magazine Le Vif on Friday, are the latest attempts to bring justice over the genocide, in which as many as 1 million ethnic Tutsis and Hutus were killed.
After more than two decades on the run, Félicien Kabuga, a tycoon who was accused of financing the genocide, was arrested by the French authorities in May outside his home in a Paris suburb. Kabuga, 84, was accused of importing several hundred thousand machetes that were used during the killings and was also charged over his funding of Radio-television Mille Collines, which incited hatred against ethnic Tutsis. Kabuga denied the accusations.