Police are offering a $5 million reward for information on a Rwandan genocide fugitive they say may be hiding in Zimbabwe.
By AP/Staff Reporter
Reports yesterday said police were offering the reward for news on the location of Protais Mpiranya, a former Rwandan Presidential Guard commander, wanted by the United Nations Tribunal for Rwanda on allegations of participating in the mass killings of 60 000 civilians during that country’s 1994 genocide.
Prosecutors of the UN tribunal which placed the $5 million bounty on Mpiranya’s head asked for Zimbabwe’s help under international laws to arrest him, but immigration officials and police previously denied that he was in the country.
Now police say Mpiranya may be in Zimbabwe.
The reports said Mpiranya could be using aliases Theophase Mahuku or James Kakule.
Mpiranya was allegedly one of those who masterminded the genocide that claimed the lives of close to a million Rwandans of Tutsi ethnic origin and moderate Hutus.
Thousands of Rwandan refugees fled to as far as Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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Last year, Zimbabwe expelled Burundian refugees after they clashed with their Rwandan counterparts as they accused each of playing a part in the genocide.
