US charges man for lying about role in Rwanda genocide

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A general view of The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, US on July 27, 2021. PHOTO | REUTERS

 A Rwandan-born Ohio man was arrested on Thursday on charges he engaged in a three-decade scheme to conceal his involvement in the African nation's 1994 genocide to enter the United States as a refugee and ultimately gain US citizenship.

Federal prosecutors in Boston said that for years, Eric Nshimiye, 52, hid the fact that he participated in the massacre by the hard-line Hutu regime of an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus during three months of slaughter.