Rwanda genocide fugitive Fulgence Kayishema, accused of killing 2,000 in church massacre, arrested
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Johannesburg — One of the world's most wanted fugitives was arrested Wednesday in South Africa after 29 years on the run, according to United Nations investigators. Fulgence Kayishema is alleged to have orchestrated the brutal killing of 2,000 women, men and children at a church in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide in the central African nation.
He was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 2001 and had been on the run, using various aliases and disguises, ever since. The Nyange church attack is seen as one of the most brutal acts during the 100 days of the Rwandan genocide.
Kayishema was arrested in a joint operation by U.N. and South African authorities in the town of Paarl, in South Africa's Western Cape, according to a statement by the U.N.'s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT).
