Ohio man charged with lying about role in Rwandan genocide

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A Rwandan-born Ohio man was arrested on Thursday on charges he engaged in a scheme to conceal his involvement in the African nation’s 1994 genocide.

BOSTON — A Rwandan-born Ohio man was arrested on Thursday on charges he engaged in a three-decade scheme to conceal his involvement in the African nation’s 1994 genocide to enter the United States as a refugee and ultimately gain U.S. citizenship. Federal prosecutors in Boston said that for years, Eric Nshimiye, 52, hid the fact that he participated in the massacre by the hard-line Hutu regime of an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus during three months of slaughter.

Nshimiye was arrested in Ohio, where he has lived since 1995, and detained after an appearance in a federal court in Youngstown. His lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. His arrest came four years after the 2019 trial conviction in Boston of Nshimiye’s former classmate Jean Leonard Teganya, who prosecutors said committed immigration fraud by concealing his involvement in the genocide when seeking asylum.

 

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