American Border Patrol officers in Maine have arrested a Rwandan man needed by the Canadian authorities for reportedly violating worldwide legal guidelines and committing crimes against humanity.
According toReuters, the arrest happened on Sunday, August 3, when an area resident noticed a “suspicious person” strolling on foot alongside the border and reported him to authorities. The man turned out to be 42-year-old Jean Leonard Teganya, who fled Rwanda along with his household again in 1994 – in the course of the nation’s bloody civil conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis.
Although Border Patrol officers advised the Los Angeles Times that Teganya was detained for illegally crossing the border between Canada and the United States, they added that after operating a search on the man they found he was needed in Canada.
Canada Border Service officers, in the meantime, wouldn’t go into element concerning the arrest warrant it had issued for Teganya, however the newspaper discovered an archived web web page from the company stating the man is among the nation’s “most wanted” fugitives. It additionally stated that Teganya “violated human or international rights” outlined by the Canadian Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
Specifically, Reuters famous that he’s accused of collaborating within the homicide of 200 Tutsis, which happened at a hospital the place Teganya was a medical intern on the time. All advised, about 800,000 Tutsis and average Hutus had been killed in the course of the 1994 genocide.
After escaping Rwanda, Teganya and his household moved by means of a number of nations – Congo, Kenya, and India – earlier than arriving in Canada hoping to realize standing as refugees. While Teganya argued that being despatched again to Rwanda would put him susceptible to torture and jail time – he’s the son of a convicted conflict prison at present in jail for 22 years – Canada denied his requests on the grounds that he was complicit within the killings on the hospital.
This 12 months, Canada issued a warrant demanding that Teganya be deported from the nation. Teganya might be faraway from the US, border officers stated, however it’s unclear whether or not he might be returned to Canada or Rwanda.