The son of <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n That testimony came as the defence<\/span> team for Lazare<\/span> Kobagaya<\/span> began Prosecutors have said the case is the first in the U.S<\/span>. requiring Jean Claude Kandagaye<\/span> testified that his father is a Hutu<\/span> and his Kandagaye<\/span> told jurors that as a refugee his father was not a Kandagaye<\/span>, who filled out an immigration form in 2005 for his Earlier Monday, prosecutors rested their case after putting on the Adjudication officer Jeryl<\/span> Bean testified that Kobagaya<\/span> responded Prosecutors used Bean to attack Kobagaya\u2019s<\/span> claim that he did not The defence<\/span> has argued that it was one of his sons, Kandagaye<\/span>, who However, Bean told jurors that Kobagaya<\/span> spoke English and that no The son of a man accused of lying to immigration officials about his participation in the 1994 Rwandan genocide took the stand Monday to testify about their life as Burundian refugees in Rwanda and his father\u2019s efforts years later to become a U.S. citizen. That testimony came as the defence team for Lazare Kobagaya began […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[277],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-igihe-com-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":277,"name":"IGIHE.com Reporter","slug":"igihe-com-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":277,"name":"IGIHE.com Reporter","slug":"igihe-com-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na man accused of lying to immigration officials about his participation in the
\n1994 Rwandan genocide took the stand Monday to testify about their life as
\nBurundian refugees in Rwanda and his father\u2019s efforts years later to become a
\nU.S<\/span>. citizen.<\/strong>
\nlaying out its case. The 84-year-old Topeka, Kansas, man is charged with
\nunlawfully obtaining U.S<\/span>. citizenship in 2006 and with fraud and misuse of an
\nalien registration card. The indictment also seeks to revoke his citizenship.
\nproof of genocide. An estimated 500,000 to 800,000 people, mostly ethnic
\nTutsis<\/span>, were killed by Hutu<\/span> militias in Rwanda between April and July 1994.
\nmother is a Tutsi. Kandagaye<\/span> told jurors that while he was growing up in
\nRwanda, his family was discriminated against because they were Burundian
\nrefugees. As refugees, they could not join political parties, attend public
\nsecondary schools or get some jobs and social services.
\nleader in the Rwandan village of Birambo<\/span> where they lived \u2014 a key point as the
\ndefence<\/span> team tries to counter the government\u2019s allegations that Kobagaya<\/span> was an
\ninfluential community leader who led others during the genocide.
\nfather, is considered a key witness as the defence<\/span> tries to show jurors that the
\nelderly Kobagaya<\/span> did not understand English well and depended on others to
\ntranslate documents and help him fill out immigration paperwork.
\nstand the immigration official who interviewed Kobagaya<\/span> during his citizenship
\napplication in April 2006.
\n“no” when asked whether he had ever persecuted anyone or ever
\ncommitted any crimes for which he was not convicted. Kobagaya<\/span> also denied ever
\ngiving false information to immigration officials or lying to them to gain
\nentry into the United States, she testified.
\npurposefully misrepresent to immigration officials that he was not living in
\nRwanda during the 1994 genocide because he was unfamiliar with the English
\nlanguage and may have misunderstood that question on the immigration forms.
\nactually filled out the paperwork because Kobagaya<\/span> did not speak English at the
\ntime.
\ninterpreter or family member was present during the 2006 interview for his
\ncitizenship.