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Former Rwandan police officer Fulgence Kayishema, accused of thousands of killings, arrested in South Africa

Fulgence Kayishema (bottom left) shown in a wanted poster from 2020.   (AFP: Simon Wolfahrt )

A Rwandan man accused of ordering the killing of 2,000 people during the country's 1994 genocide has been arrested in South Africa.

Former police officer Fulgence Kayishema's alleged victims included children and elderly people from the Tutsi ethnic group who were taking refuge in a Catholic church.

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