Interpol says Italian police have arrested a Rwandan fugitive suspected of a role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.The international police organization, based in Lyon, France, says Emmanuel Uwayezu was working as a vicar near Florence and using an alias when arrested.
Interpol says Uwayezu arrived in Italy in 1997. He is suspected of conspiracy to plan and commit genocide by inciting Hutus to kill Tutsis while he headed a college in Kibeho. He is also suspected of complicity in the massacre of 80 students.
Uwayezu was the subject of an Interpol "red notice," equivalent to being on the agency's most-wanted list.
More than 500,000 members of the Tutsi ethnic minority and moderates from the Hutu majority were slaughtered during the 100-day genocide.
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