RWANDA: Priest transferred to Arusha for trial

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RWANDA: Priest transferred to Arusha for trial

NAIROBI, 11 April (IRIN) - A Rwandan former priest, Hormidas Nsengimana, was
on Wednesday transferred from Yaounde, Cameroon, where he was arrested last
month, to the United Nations Detention Facility in Arusha, Tanzania.

According to a news release from the Arusha-based International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda, Nsengimana is the fifth clergyman to be arrested at the
request of the Tribunal on charges connected with the genocide in Rwanda in
1994.

Nsengimana, a former priest and rector of Christ-Roi College in Nyanza,
Nyabisundi commune, in the southern Butare Prefecture of Rwanda, is charged
with genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity for
murder and extermination.

Nsengimana is alleged to have played a leading role in a group of killers
called Les Dragons (or Escadron de la mort), a group which reputedly played
a crucial role in the killing of Tutsis in Butare Prefecture.

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