A Rwandan man is being held in the Democratic Republic of Congo on suspicion of war crimes and will probably be extradited to the Rwanda tribunal in Tanzania. Gregoire Ndahimana was caught during a joint operation by Congolese and United Nations troops against the FDLR rebel group in the North Kivu region.
Mr Ndahimana was an official in Kivumu during the 1994 Rwandan genocide when almost all its 6,000 Tutsi residents were put to death. He will have to answer specific charges concerning the deaths of 2,000 people in a church which was bulldozed to the ground.
In 1994, an estimated 800,000 members of the Tutsi ethnic community and moderate Hutus were killed in Rwanda. Following Mr Ndahimana's arrest, 12 prime suspects wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda are still at large.
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