Top Rwanda genocide suspect seized in Uganda

Kampala, 02 July-(ANA)-A Rwandan priest accused of helping to orchestrate the 1994 genocide in his native country has been held in Uganda, police say.

Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi was arrested after entering western Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mr Uwinkindi was indicted in 2001 by a UN-backed tribunal for genocide and crimes against humanity.

About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu militias in the 100-day slaughter in 1994.

The indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) says that Mr Uwinkindi was a pastor at a Pentecostal Church near Rwanda's capital, Kigali, in 1994.

He is accused of ordering the killing of Tutsis, including women and children, after they had sought refuge in his church.

The prosecution alleges that in investigations after the genocide, some 2,000 corpses were found near the church.

Until his arrest, Mr Uwinkindi was one of the ICTR's 11 most wanted suspects.(ANA)

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