Canada has expelled a Rwandan national, Jean Claude Seyoboka, over his alleged role in the genocide in 1994, the National Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA), said on Thursday in Kigali.
Prosecution spokesperson Faustin Nkusi said that Seyoboka, 44, who arrived on Thursday in Kigali, is the second Rwandan resident in Canada sent home on their suspected role in the crimes against humanity.
The suspect, who is a former Second-Lieutenant in the defeated Rwandan Armed Forces (ex-FAR), has been facing deportation from Canada since May this year over his alleged role in the massacre perpetrated between April and July 1994.
It is said that the Canada Border Services Agency had initially granted permanent residency to Seyoboka, who fled Rwanda in July 1994, before the Canadian authorities discovered that he did not mention that he was a soldier who allegedly took part in mass killings during the genocide.
Under Canadian immigration law, genocide and crimes against humanity are part of several grounds for criminal inadmissibility.
In January 2012, the Canadian authorities deported another genocide suspect, Léon Mugesera, the long-time Quebec City resident, who was wanted in Rwanda on charges of inciting genocide and crimes against humanity stemming from an inflammatory anti-Tutsi speech he gave in 1992.
Reports said that the speech by the university professor and one-time Rwandan political operative was considered a key propaganda tool during a 100-day massacre of Tutsis and Hutu moderates some two years later. Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered during the genocide.
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