Germany arrests man accused of ordering killings in Rwanda genocide

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Skulls of victims of Rwanda's 1994 genocide's at the Ntarama Genocide Memorial, in Kigali.

German prosecutors arrested a German-Rwandan national on suspicion of being an accomplice to genocide and 25 counts of ​murder during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, they ‌said in a statement on Wednesday.

The suspect, identified only as Innocent S under German privacy rules, is accused of ordering the deaths of 25 Tutsis on five separate occasions while ​serving as an assistant to the mayor of Kayove in northwestern Rwanda.