Obama deal sent Rwandans accused of butchering Americans to Australia amid refugee swap: report - News Summed Up

Obama deal sent Rwandans accused of butchering Americans to Australia amid refugee swap: report


The Obama administration reportedly agreed to offload three Rwandans accused of slaughtering Americans to Australia -- a previously unknown arrangement connected to a broader migrant swap between the two countries that made headlines when President Trump balked at the deal in 2017. A lengthy Politico report detailed how the administration agreed to transfer the three Rwandan men accused of a gruesome 1999 attack against Western tourists on a gorilla-watching visit to Uganda. The case was dropped and the men were left in limbo until the Obama-era deal. Two of the three men were sent to Australia last year, with no indication they were jailed or detained by authorities there. Asked whether the transfer of the Rwandans was explicitly part of the deal, a source told Politico: “The prime minister understood the deal completely.


Source: Fox News May 16, 2019 15:27 UTC



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