\n A Copenhagen appeals court on Friday ruled that a 51-year-old Dane of Rwandan origin can be extradited to Rwanda where he is accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide.\n<\/p>\n
\n The appeals court upheld a lower court ruling from April.\n<\/p>\n
\n Authorities in Rwanda have accused the man, whose identity was not disclosed, of participating in the killing of some 2,000 people who had sought refuge in a church and a university in Mutende.\n<\/p>\n
\n Witnesses have described how the accused walked around the church with his dog looking for Tutsis.\n<\/p>\n
\n He is accused of killing an elderly woman and an infant, as well as three youths at a roadblock.\n<\/p>\n
\n The man has denied the allegations and argued that Rwandan authorities have confused him with someone else.\n<\/p>\n
\n The man left Rwanda in 1997 before arriving in Denmark in 2001. He was granted residency in 2002 and became a Danish citizen in 2014.\n<\/p>\n
\n Danish police were tipped off about the man, who now has four children in Denmark, more than a decade ago, according to Danish news agency Ritzau.\n<\/p>\n
\n Danish investigators travelled to Rwanda and interrogated more than 30 witnesses in their probe.\n<\/p>\n
\n After investigating the case and corresponding with Rwandan authorities for several years, the man was arrested in May 2017.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 1994 genocide in Rwanda saw 800,000 people, mainly minority Tutsis, slaughtered by the military and Hutu militias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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