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Germany Arrests Rwandan Genocide Suspect

The 51-year-old Hutu man, Onesphore Rwabukombe, was arrested in the Frankfurt area on Monday, one month after Rwanda's own attempts to obtain his extradition from Germany collapsed.

He is suspected of either overseeing or calling for multiple murders in both 1990 and 1994.

"In particular, he is accused of involvement in a massacre at Nyarubuye in mid-April 1994 in the course of which several thousand people were killed," said a statement in Karlsruhe, where the federal prosecutors are based.

Read entire article at Deutsche Welle