The Netherlands has extradited to Rwanda a 72-year-old suspect accused of complicity in the 1994 genocide.
Venant Rutunga was immediately taken into custody after he left a Dutch plane that arrived in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, on Monday night.
In a statement, Rwanda’s state prosecutor commended the Dutch authorities for “contributing to the global effort to fight impunity”.
Rutunga was arrested in the Netherlands in 2019 on an arrest warrant issued by Rwanda.
He fought against his extradition but lost the legal battle in May.
The authorities in Rwanda accuse Rutunga of orchestrating the killing of around 1,000 people from the Tutsi ethnic group when he served as a state agricultural officer in the southern part of the country.
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