Ugandan police arrest Rwandan genocide suspect

POLICE in Uganda have arrested one of the most wanted suspects from Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, police confirmed yesterday.

Nizeyimana, a former army captain and senior intelligence officer, had entered Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo on October 1 and was detained in Kampala on Monday, the source said.

He had been extradited to Arusha, northern Tanzania, to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the source said.