German police have arrested a senior Rwandan official in connection with the killing of a former president whose death triggered the 1994 genocide, which killled 800.000 people, BBC online reports Sunday.
Rose Kabuye – the chief of protocol for current Rwandan President Paul Kagame – was detained on arrival at Frankfurt on a warrant issued by a French judge.
She is one of nine senior Rwandan officials wanted over the shooting down of Juvenal Habyarimanas plane. All are members of the party which ousted the genocidal regime.
Ms Kabuye, a former guerrilla fighter with the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), now Rwandas ruling party, has heroic status in Rwanda. She has since served as an MP and mayor of the capital Kigali, and is one of President Kagames closest aides. Ms Kabuyes lawyer said she would be transferred to France “as quickly as possible”.
The Rwandan government denies involvement in the death of the former president. Information Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said that Ms Kabuyes arrest was a “misuse of international jurisdiction”.
