Suspect in 1994 Rwandan genocide deported from US
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · Sub-Saharan Africa
A Rwandan man jailed in the United States for lying about his involvement in the 1994 genocide has been deported to his home country, the state prosecutor said on Monday. The Rwandan genocide began in April 1994, and over approximately 100 days some 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis, were murdered. Jean Leonard Teganya, 55, was convicted in April 2019 of two counts of immigration fraud and three of perjury after lying about his alleged role in the genocide to secure asylum in the United...
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