Leoncia Mukashikama and son Emmanuel Mukeshamfura, who was born after she was raped during the 1994 killings NICHOLE SOBECKIFive alleged Rwandan war criminals living in the UK could face justice in Britain more than two decades after Africa’s worst genocide. The men, who have been described as “masterminds” of the 1994 massacre in which an estimated 800,000 people died, include the head of an evangelical church in Kent and a north London doctor. Scotland Yard’s war crimes unit confirmed this weekend that it was conducting a preliminary inquiry into five suspects after a request from the Rwandan government to prosecute them in Britain. The move follows a marathon legal battle, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds, which saw efforts to extradite the suspects to Rwanda end in failure last year. The High Court ruled they would not receive a fair trial if…

Source: The Times April 07, 2018 23:03 UTC