Catholic Priest accused of Rwandan genocide found 'in Italy'
Pastor Dale Morgan
Catholic Priest accused of Rwandan genocide found 'in Italy'*
May 8, 2009 - 6:49AM
A Rwandan Catholic priest suspected of involvement in the country's 1994
genocide is working in a parish in the Italian diocese of Florence, a
rights group says.
The priest, Emmanuel Uwayezu, is the director of a school in southern
Rwanda where more than 80 students were killed during the massacre, the
London-based African Rights group says.
Uwayezu, a Hutu, fled when Hutu militiamen surrounded the Mercy Mary of
Kibeho school on May 7, 1994, while his students were shot and hacked to
death, the group said in a report. Police who were meant to be
protecting the students joined in the killing, African Rights said.
"The massacre started immediately. Except for a handful of survivors,
most of the students perished, killed by the guns and grenades of the
gendarmes or the spears, axes and machetes of the militiamen," it said.
"Father Uwayezu returned to Kibeho several days after the massacre to
arrange for the gendarmes to provide military training to Hutu male
students so they could seek out survivors," African Rights added.
It called on Italian and Rwanda authorities as well as the Catholic
church in the two countries to "carry out their own investigations into
the serious charges contained in this report".
About 800,000 people were killed in the genocide carried out against the
Tutsi minority by extremist Hutu militias.