Fulgence Kayishema, the world’s most wanted genocide fugitive, used two false passports and names to enter South Africa and then travel

Fulgence Kayishema, the world’s most wanted genocide fugitive, used two false passports and names to enter South Africa and then travel.

He worked in a white owned farm in Paarl as a security guard, the very same white farmers who blame South Africans for “Farm Murders” are employing illegal foreigners who are on Interpol’s Red List, the most notorious criminals in the world.

It says Mr Kayishema, born in 1961, and others tried to burn the church down with the refugees inside. When this failed, they bulldozed it, burying and killing all those hiding there.

Their corpses were then buried in mass graves.

In a statement, The Hague-based tribunal – known as the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT) – hailed the international operation which had made it possible to apprehend Mr Kayishema.

South African police said an elite unit had arrested the suspect at a grape farm in Paarl, in Western Cape province. He had been living under the false name of Donatien Nibashumba.

“The fugitive will remain in custody to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate Court for his first appearance on Friday… pending his extradition to Rwanda,” a statement said.

Reacting to the arrest, Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo tweeted: “Finally.”

Kayishema is accused of taking part in the killing of 2,000 people sheltering inside a Catholic church in one of the 1994 Rwandan genocide’s bloodiest episodes.

He was arrested on Wednesday under the false name of Donatien Nibashumba on a grape farm in Paarl, 60km (35 miles) north of Cape Town. South African police said the arrest was made in response to an Interpol red notice. Red notices go out to law enforcement agencies around the world. They seek the location and arrest of fugitives wanted for prosecution or to serve prison sentences.

Entering court on Friday for an initial hearing with a Bible and book emblazoned with “Jesus First”, the 62-year-old was asked by a journalist if he had anything to say to victims.