{A US Peace Corps volunteer was expelled from Rwanda for his involvement in violence against one of his mates}
Mr Mathias Van Dis, who arrived in Rwanda several months ago, was teaching English in a secondary school in Rutsiro, in western Rwanda, official sources said on Monday in Kigali. A reliable source told IGIHE that Van’s colleagues have decided to deport him from the country due to his indiscipline.
Meanwhile, PANA website reported that sources close to the Rwandan security services said the Peace Corps volunteer was “a threat to public safety”, which justified his expulsion.
He was accused of alleged “serious voluntary assault and battery” during a fight in a bar during which he struck one of his friends with an empty bottle
US Peace Corps was invited to return to Rwanda for the first time since the 1994 genocide by President Paul Kagame, and the agreement between the governments of the United States and the Republic of Rwanda was signed on July 18, 2008. The first group of volunteers arrived in Rwanda on January 27, 2009.
Other Peace Corps Volunteers in Rwanda work in education, with the vast majority serving as English teachers assigned to secondary schools throughout the country by MINEDUC.
Source: PANA
Additional reporting: IGIHE
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