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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jason Burke Africa correspondent

Rwanda president suggests UK extradite genocide suspects after asylum deal

Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame told diplomats in Kigali he hoped the UK would ‘send us some people they have accommodated for over 15 years who committed crimes’. Photograph: Yves Herman/AFP/Getty Images

Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, has suggested the UK extradite suspects wanted in the east African country for alleged roles in the 1994 genocide, after a controversial deal with the Home Office to process asylum seekers there.

Speaking less than two weeks after the deal was announced, Kagame told an audience of diplomats in Kigali that included the British high commissioner he hoped “that when the UK is sending us these migrants, they should send us some people they have accommodated for over 15 years who committed crimes [in Rwanda]”.

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