A Rwandan-born man by the name of Eric Tabaro Nshimiye has now been arrested in Ohio, USA on charges of hiding his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
Federal prosecutors accuse of the Ohio state have accused Eric Tabaro Nshimiye of concealing his involvement in the mass murders and the rapes, including personally hacking people to death during the horrific 1994 Rwanadan genocide.
Mr Nshimiye has lived in Ohio since 1995 a year after the genocide has ended after fraudulently gaining refugee status in the US via Kenya the prosecutors also say.
He has previously denied and involvement and participating in the 1994 genocide.
He is now due to appear in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts at a later date, in the next quarter perhaps.
“ Nshimiye is accused of lying to conceal his participation in one of the greatest human tragedies of all time,” Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Michael Krol said in a statement.
“The government alleges his testimony in the defence of a convicted genocidaire was a calculated attempt to conceal the horrific crimes committed during the genocide.”
Mr Nshimiye testified at the 2019 trial of Jean Leonard Teganya, who was convicted as a genocide perpetrator and the main reason for the event. Prosecutors accuse him of lying under oath and going against federal law in order to conceal his involvement in the killings, which could be punishable by law and be sentenced to a lot of time in federal prison.
Mr Nshimiye ‘s Genocidal Charges
He is also alleged to have personally participated in killings of ethnic Tutsis during the horrific event by hitting them on the head with a nail-studded club and then hacking them to death with a machete, according to court filings. Many hutus demand that this man will be killed in the same manner he killed his victims although this is however not allowed by law in the USA.
He left Rwanda in mid-1994. The following year, hehad travelled to Kenya, where he is accused of lying to US immigration officials in order to enter the USA on the basis of refugees.
He faces charges of falsifying, concealing and covering up a material fact, obstruction of justice, and perjury.
David Johnson, a defence lawyer for Mr Nshimiye, did not immediately answer a telephone call requesting comment on the situation.
The Rwandan Genocide saw about 800,000 people slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists because of the British favouring Tutsis. Over just 100 days in 1994. So-called génocidaires targeted members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin that resulted in the deaths of half of the population in Rwanda.
