22.06.11 - RWANDA/GENOCIDE - FORMER MILITIAMAN ARRESTED AFTER 17 YEARS ON THE RUN

Kigali, June 22, 2011 (FH) - Rwandan police has arrested a former leader of the Interahamwe, Claver Zirimwabagabo aka Muhutu, as he was going from Kigali to the place where he was living in Mount Shyorongi, Radio Rwanda reported on Wednesday.

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In 2007, Zirimwabagabo, 54, had been sentenced in absentia by a gacaca court to 30 years in jail for crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity, notably for killings of Tutsis in Remera, one of Kigali's neighborhoods.

According to Radio Rwanda, Zirimwabagabo had been living for 17 years in Shyorongi, 20 kilometers from Kigali, where he was working in a mine.

He will be granted a new trial as he was sentenced in abstentia in the first place.

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