Former Rwandan police officer Fulgence Kayishema, accused of ordering the killing of some 2 000 Tutsis who were seeking refuge in a church during the 1994 genocide has been remanded in custody with more charges expected to be added. against him.👩⚖️
Fulgence Kayishema, one of the last fugitives sought over the 1994 Rwanda genocide, appeared before a court in Cape Town on Friday. Photo: AFP
Former Rwandan police officer Fulgence Kayishema, accused of ordering the killing of some 2 000 Tutsis who were seeking refuge in a church during the 1994 genocide has been remanded in custody with more charges expected to be added. against him. The 62-year-old Kayishema appeared briefly in Cape Town Magistrates court on Friday charged with two counts of fraud and three counts of transgression of the Immigration Act.
The court granted the state a seven-day postponement to continue with its investigation, as it seeks to add more charges against Kayishema.genocide, had been on the run since 2001, when the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda indicted him for genocide over his role in the destruction of the Nyange Catholic Church in Kibuye Prefecture.
Around 800 000 Rwandans, most of them ethnic Tutsis, were slaughtered over 100 days at the hands of Hutu extremists
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