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4:58 CAT | 27 Apr 2022
Jean Paul Micomyiza, 50, is accused of committing genocide crimes when he was a university student in 1994- [Photo: IGHE]
Swedish authorities have extradited a Rwandan man to Kigali over genocide charges which he is accused to have committed when he was a university student.
The Rwanda prosecution said it received Jean Paul Micomyiza on Wednesday and commended Sweden for its contribution “to fight impunity”.
Mr Micomyiza, 50, was arrested in Sweden in November 2020 on a Rwandan arrest warrant. He lost an appeal against his extradition last December.
He has lived in Sweden for more than a decade.
He is accused of crimes of genocide for his alleged role in searching and identifying Tutsis to be killed during the 1994 genocide, when he was 22.
At the time, he was a student at the National University of Rwanda located in his hometown, Butare, in south Rwanda.
Mr Micomyiza has not commented about the charges he faces in Rwanda
Jean Paul Micomyiza, a genocide suspect arrived in Kigali extradited from #Sweden.
He is accused of leading a militia and mutilating, murdering and raping during the genocide in 1994, in Butare, where he was a second year student in National University of Rwanda. pic.twitter.com/sRyJZGvNfO
— The Great Lakes Eye (@TheGreatLakesE1) April 27, 2022
“Each suspect has his day, one day they will be brought to justice, they will be tried either in Rwanda or even in those countries.”
National Public Prosecution Authority Spokesperson, Faustin Nkusi reacts to the extradition of Micomyiza Jean Paul pic.twitter.com/9M38xN7MwD
— IGIHE (@IGIHE) April 27, 2022
Source: BBC
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