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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger World affairs editor

Twenty-year search for Rwanda genocide suspect ends in Zimbabwe grave

Protais Mpiranya
A composite picture of Protais Mpiranya who had been on the run for more than two decades. Photograph: MICT/AFP/Getty

The 20-year manhunt for one of the world’s most brutal killers has come to a decisive end in an overgrown cemetery outside Harare.

The body of Protais Mpiranya, the former commander of the Rwandan presidential guard indicted for genocide, lay buried under a stone slab bearing a false name, which UN investigators tracked down and identified with the help of a critical lead found on a confiscated computer: the hand-drawn design for Mpiranya’s tombstone.

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