The Democratic Republic of Congo has extradited Gregoire Ndahimana, a former mayor suspected of playing a role in the slaughter of some 2,000 Tutsis sheltering in a church during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The former mayor, who was arrested in August during a campaign against Hutu rebels in the region of North Kivu, will be sent to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda which is based in the Tanzanian city of Arusha.
Nearly all of the 6,000 Tutsis living in the Rwandan town of Kivumu were killed in the genocide. Bulldozers were sent to destroy the church in which 2,000 Tutsis were sheltering.
Skulls from 1994 massacre of Hutus in Rwanda
Photo by Wikimedia Commons
Photo by Wikimedia Commons
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