CAPE Town, June 9, 2023 (Reuters/NAN) South African prosecutors on Friday significantly increased the number of charges brought against Rwandan ex-police officer, Fulgence Kayishema, who is wanted internationally for suspected participation in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.

According to a prosecutor, Kayishema who was on the run for two decades was arrested on May 24 under a false name on a grape farm in South Africa when refugees working there gave him up.

Prosecutors spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said outside a Cape Town court that he now faces 54 separate charges in South Africa relating to fraud and immigration offences, up from five previously.

Kayishema had been a fugitive from justice since 2001 when the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) indicted him for genocide for allegedly ordering the massacre of 2,000 people hiding in the Nyange Catholic Church. (The Nation)