Rwanda genocide suspect nabbed
2007-09-19 21:06
Frankfurt - A former Rwandan cabinet minister wanted for war crimes committed during the 1994 genocide in the African state has been arrested in Germany, police said on Wednesday.
The former planning minister is suspected of encouraging the mass murder of members of Rwanda's Tutsi minority by arming the Hutu majority, a spokesperson for the federal police said.
She said the 50-year-old suspect was arrested near the western city of Frankfurt on Monday, at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
The German authorities refused to identify the suspect but he is believed to be Augustin Ngirabatware, a former Hutu minister who is on the tribunal's list of war crimes suspects.
The Rwandan genocide claimed some 800 000 lives in the space of a hundred days.