Genocide Suspect Is Arrested in Kenya

A former Rwandan provincial governor has been arrested in Nairobi, Kenya, and charged with playing a leading role in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, U.N. officials in Rwanda said.

Francois Karera, 62, was arrested in the Kenyan capital Saturday and transferred to a detention center at the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. He is charged with complicity in genocide and extermination.

Karera served as governor of Kigali Rural province between April and July 1994, during the genocide in which extremists of the ethnic Hutu majority massacred 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates.

Human rights organizations allege that he was also at the helm of massacres of hundreds of ethnic Tutsis in 1992 when he was deputy governor of Bugesera region.