The United States this Friday deported to Rwanda Mudahinyuka Jean Marie Vianney, a genocide fugitive who was convicted to 19 years imprisonment in absentia by the Gacaca court of Nyakabanda sector here in Kigali.

By Hamza Ndangiza, Kigali CONTACT FM

Mudahinyuka’s chartered plane touched down at Kigali International airport at 8 o’clock in the morning. He disembarked in handcuffs and chains to his legs accompanied by law enforcement officers from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department of the US.

Mudahinyuka, alias Zuzu, entered the US in the 1990s under false identity, calling himself a genocide survivor under the names Thierry Rugamba.

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A genocide survivor saw him in Chicago and tipped off authorities who investigated him and charged him with fraudulently acquiring residence in the US; hence Friday’s deportation. Martin Ngoga is Rwanda’s Prosecutor General. He says they are happy that the US has deported him.

Listen to Martin Ngoga:

The US is also home to other fugitives as well as Theogene Rudasingwa and Gerald Gahima, two former senior Rwandan officials, who were recently convicted by the military high court for complicity in forming a criminal group and sentenced to 24 and 20 years imprisonment respectively. Ngoga says the US should also send them to Rwanda.

Listen to Martin Ngoga on the International Criminal Court:

Mudahinyuka was the fourth topmost leader of the Interahamwe militia committee that carried out the 1994 massacres that claimed more the lives of more than one million people.