A former Rwandan army officer has been extradited from Canada to face charges of participating in the 1994 genocide, Rwandan officials have said.
Jean Claude Seyoboka, who was a second lieutenant in the Rwandan military, is accused of participating in the “extermination” of more than 72 Tutsis in Kigali and attending meetings where massacres were allegedly planned, AFP reports.
Seyaboka has however denied involvement in the genocide that saw about 800,000 people, mostly from the Tutsi ethnicity, killed in four months.
Mr Seyoboka arrived in Canada in 1995 and was granted refugee status a year later.
His status was however revoked after testimony at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda linked him to the killing of a woman and two children during the massacre.
Rwandan authorities issued a warrant for Mr Seyoboka’s arrest this year, but he fought extradition by claiming he would be tortured or killed if returned to Rwanda.
He is the second genocide suspect to be extradited from Canada after former politician Leon Mugesera was sent back to Rwanda in 2012.
