A Hutu priest accused of leading and coordinating attacks on his country's minority Tutsis during Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been arrested in Uganda.
Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi, a pastor in the Kigali-Rural prefecture, was taken into custody on Wednesday in Isingiro district, southwest Uganda, a police spokeswoman said.
Uwinkindi is accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) of genocide and crimes against humanity during the slaughter in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed.
"The information I have is that he entered the country on Tuesday from the Democratic Republic of Congo but our intelligence operatives were tracking him and he was arrested on Wednesday," the spokeswoman said.
She could not confirm whether Uwinkindi had been transferred to the custody of the tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania.
According to an ICTR indictment, Uwinkindi "led a group of killers to look for and exterminate Tutsi, in particular Tutsi civilians from Kanzenze commune".
He is the second Rwandan genocide suspect to be arrested in Uganda in less than a year.
In October 2009 Uganda seized Idelphonse Nizeyimana after he slipped into the country from Congo. Nizeyimana was a former deputy intelligence chief in Rwanda and was accused of genocide, complicity in genocide and public incitement to commit genocide.
Reuters