The authorities affirm that he was hidden for 23 years in a well dug in a neighbor’s house, arrested for cover-up
May 17. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Rwandan authorities have announced the arrest of a man accused of participating in the 1994 genocide who had been on the run for about 30 years and who had managed to escape justice by hiding for more than two decades in the house of one of his neighbors in the town. of Nyanza.
The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) has indicated that the suspect, identified as Emmanuel Ntarindwa, has remained hidden for 23 years in the house of a man identified as Eugenie Mukamana, also arrested for not reporting the presence of the fugitive in his home.
Thus, he stressed that Ntarindwa has confessed that he fled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to escape the new authorities after participating in the genocide and added that he spent seven years there before returning to Rwandan territory in 2001, when he sought refuge in Mukamana’s home.
The RIB has stated that the suspect, who allegedly confessed to several murders in two Nyanza communes during the genocide, did not leave the house at any time and that the man dug a well in a room to be able to remain hidden, according to the Rwandan newspaper. ‘The New Times’.
The announcement about Ntarindwa’s arrest comes just two days after the Office of the Prosecutor of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Courts (IRMCT), the judicial body linked to the UN to clarify responsibilities for the Rwanda genocide, confirmed the death of the two latest fugitives charged for their role in the extermination of Tutsis and moderate Hutus at the hands of Hutu extremists.
Around 800,000 Rwandans, the vast majority of them Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were murdered by Hutu extremists over nearly three months in 1994. Mass graves are still being discovered today, especially since convicts who have served their sentences have been provided information about the place where they buried or abandoned their victims.
The roots of the conflict between Hutus and Tutsis go back several generations, although the death of the then Rwandan president, the Hutu Juvenal Habyarimana, due to the downing with a missile of the plane in which he was traveling with the president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, quickly triggered massacres led by the Hutu militia Interahamwe.
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