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Fulgence Kayishema was living under a false name at a grape farm in South Africa when he was arrested for ordering the murder of thousands of Tutsis in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

By Carien du Plessis

Fulgence Kayishema, who is accused of participating in the killing of some 2,000 Tutsi refugees during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has been arrested in South Africa. He is one of four remaining fugitives sought by the United Nations tribunal for war crimes committed in Rwanda.

A Rwandan man accused of ordering the killing of some 2,000 Tutsis who were seeking refuge in a church during the 1994 genocide has been arrested in South Africa, a U.N. war crimes tribunal and South African police said on Thursday.

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Kayishema, indicted by a UN tribunal on Rwanda in 2001, is alleged to have orchestrated the killing of some 2,000 Tutsi.

Fulgence Kayishema, 62, charged with playing leading role in church killing of more than 2,000 people