South Africa: UN War Crimes Prosecutor Blasts South Africa for Allowing a Major Rwandan Genocidist to Flee the Country

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South Africa: UN War Crimes Prosecutor Blasts South Africa for Allowing a Major Rwandan Genocidist to Flee the Country

[Daily Maverick] Fulgence Kayishema, who allegedly bulldozed a church filled with 2 000 Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, killing hundreds, was living in Cape Town until a year ago

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