Stockholm (AFP) – {A Swede of Rwandan origin and a Rwandan national were held in custody Wednesday in Sweden under suspicion of involvement in the African country’s 1994 genocide, prosecutors said.}<\/p>\n
“Two men have been arrested and are being questioned. They are suspected of participating in the genocide,” Tora Holst, prosecutor in charge of the probe, told AFP.<\/p>\n
“They are the target of two related investigations and both deny the allegations.”<\/p>\n
The prosector added that the men, whose identities have not been revealed, have lived in Sweden for “a number of years”.<\/p>\n
One of them was born in 1955 and has become a Swedish citizen, while the other, born in 1962, lives in the Nordic country but is a Rwandan national.<\/p>\n
In June, a Swedish appeal court upheld the first genocide conviction in the country’s history, with a life sentence for a Swede of Rwandan origin Stanislas Mbanenande.<\/p>\n
The 55-year-old engineer, who worked as a teacher in his country, was found guilty of playing a leading role in five massacres committed in western Rwanda.<\/p>\n
The appeal court said the conviction was based on a large number of reliable testimonies, including interviews with witnesses of some of the massacres. Mbanenande has denied all of the accusations.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s “investigations have nothing to do with this affair,” Holst clarified to AFP.<\/p>\n
According to Swedish public radio, one of the suspects was arrested in central Sweden and the other in the north of the country.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor is expected to decide on their detention by Thursday.<\/p>\n
Other Rwandans have already been convicted in Canada, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands for their involvement in Rwandan genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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