The Rwandan spy chief arrested in London on suspicion of orchestrating revenge massacres in the wake of his country’s genocide is also implicated in the killings of two Britons, The Independent can reveal.
General Karenzi Karake, who is the head of Rwanda’s intelligence service, was detained on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) at Heathrow Airport on Saturday by Scotland Yard officers acting on a Spanish indictment accusing him of organising attacks that led to thousands of deaths following his comrades’ intervention to halt the 1994 genocide of 800,000 people.
The Rwandan authorities – and former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell – condemned Gen Karake’s detention. Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwanda’s foreign minister described the arrest of the general, who it is understood has been a regular visitor to London despite being the subject of an EAW since 2008, as an “outrage”. FULL STORY