APA-Cape Town (South Africa) Rwandan genocide suspect Fulgence Kayishema is facing 54 charges of contravening South Africa’s refugee and immigration laws and committing fraud after being arrested last month for living in the country under false identity.
According to the charge sheet presented in the Cape Town on Friday, Kayishema faces nine counts of fraud, 10 of contravention of the Refugees Act and 35 counts of contravention of the Immigration Act.
Kayishema was arrested on 24 May while living under a false name on a grape farm in South Africa’s Western Cape province where he worked as a security guard.
The trial is expected to continue on 20 June, according to the National Prosecution Agency.
Kayishema has been on the run for over 20 years for the brutal killing of about 2,000 people in a church during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
He was described as “the world’s most wanted genocide fugitive”, according to the UN’s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
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