One of the most-wanted suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide (folkemord) was arrested Monday in Uganda, carrying false identity documents, police say, according to BBC online Tuesday.
Idelphonse Nizeyimana is accused of organising the killing. All together some 800.000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by Hutu militias during 100 days of slaughter.
Mr Nizeyimana, a captain in the army, was head of intelligence and military operations during the genocide and is accused of setting up special military units to help carry out the slaughter. One of these units is believed to have killed Queen Rosalie Gicanda, widow of King Mutara III who died in 1959 shortly before the country became a republic.
According to a 1999 report by US-based Human Rights Watch, Hutu soldiers took the queen from her home in the south-eastern town of Butare and shot her behind the national museum.
They also murdered several women who looked after the queen, who was about 80 years old when she died. They returned the next day and shot her mother and pillaged her house.
Mr Nizeyimana faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. Troops under his command also rampaged through the University of Butare, killing lecturers and students as part of an attempt to wipe out the Tutsi intelligentsia.
