The United States deported a Rwandan professor last month, over his reported involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide after a long running legal battle.
Leopold Munyakazi, a former university professor, is accused of organising night raids during the genocide, where some 800,000 people were killed. In one case, Mr Munyakazi is accused of personally shooting dead a man named Ugirashebuja Felicien Kirwa during the massacres.
Rwanda’s government backed National Commission had accused Mr Munyakazi of the crimes, as well as inciting racial hatred with an article calling for Tutsis to be given only 10% of jobs in the country in 1991.
Mr Munyakazi cme to the US in 2004 and had been living in Alabama, teaching French.
A spokesperson from Rwanda’s prosecutor’s office confirmed that this was the fourth deportation from the United States. “We have sent 21 arrest warrants for genocide suspects" currently in the USA, he added. Over 600 arrest warrants have been issued globally for genocide suspects by Rwanda.