German prosecutors have arrested a German-Rwandan man accused of participating in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
The suspect, identified only as Innocent S under Germany’s privacy laws, faces charges of aiding genocide and 25 counts of murder. Prosecutors say he served as an assistant to the mayor of Kayove in northwestern Rwanda during the genocide.
According to investigators, Innocent S ordered the killings of 25 Tutsi victims in five separate incidents. In one of those attacks, he is accused of personally stabbing a victim to death.
Prosecutors also allege that he used his position to incite violence against Tutsis and helped compile lists of people who were later targeted and killed.
The suspect was arrested in the central German state of Hesse.
Germany has prosecuted several genocide suspects under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows its courts to try serious international crimes regardless of where they were committed.
The 1994 Rwanda genocide claimed the lives of more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus over a period of about 100 days between April and July.
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