A federal immigration court has ordered the deportation
of a Rwandan for allegedly engaging in genocide, U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement said Monday. Enos Irigaba Kagaba was arrested three
years ago at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and charged
with trying to enter the country without valid entry documents, as well
as misrepresenting his identity. But federal authorities said they
found evidence that he had committed acts of genocide in 1994 in
Rwanda, where at least 500,000 minority Tutsis and political moderates
from the Hutu majority were killed. The genocide was orchestrated by
the extremist Hutu government then in power. The case has been playing
out in the courts since then and was finally upheld by an immigration
appeals court in Virginia earlier this month. Kagaba has been held in
Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Minneapolis since 2001. [more ]
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