The United Stated of America has deported Oswald Rurangwa, a wanted suspect in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi which claimed over a million lives. Rurangwa is said to have been the leader of Interahamwe militia in the Gisozi sector of City of Kigali in 1994.
Rurangwa aged 59, who lived in the US for 25 years, arrived at Kigali International Airport on Thursday 7th October 2021 around 4p.m.
Upon arrival at the airport, he was immediately handed over to Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB).
The National Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA) has said that Rurangwa lived in Gisozi sector, Gasabo district of Kigali City during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.
As a primary school teacher in 1994 and leader of Interahamwe militia in Gisozi. It is said that he is among masterminds behind the killings of Tutsis that had fled to Sainte Famille and Saint Paul in Kigali during the Genocide.
Many of the victims of the militia are said to be buried at the Gisozi Genocide memorial site in Kigali.
In Rwanda he is accused of arming, creating road blocks and inciting the interahamwe Militia group and deadly Tutsi perpetrators of the Genocide against the Tutsi.
He fled to former Zaire in Kibumba refugee camp and joined Kayindo camp later from where he left in 1996 flying to the USA.
In 2008, he changed his name to Oswald Rukemuye before being apprehended as he pursued studies at Wilberforce University in Ohio State.
He becomes the sixth Genocide fugitive deported from USA.
