Ex-Banker Accused in '94 Rwanda Massacres

A former Rwandan banker accused of participating in the country's 1994 genocide has been arrested in Brussels, prosecutors said Thursday. Ephrem Nkezabera, 52, was arrested June 21 and is being held on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, said Lieve Pellens, a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor's office. Investigating Judge Damien Vandermeersch confirmed his detention for another month at a pretrial hearing Wednesday. Pellens declined to release any details of the case, citing its "delicate nature." Nkezabera, a former top director of the Commercial Bank of Rwanda, was the treasurer of the Interahamwe Hutu militia, which played a central role in the massacre of at least 500,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis, state-owned Radio Rwanda reported late Wednesday. [more]