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US deports genocide suspect

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    A former pastor of a Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mugonero, Kibuye prefecture, has been deported from the United States to face trial at the ICTR, according to Hirondelle. The pastor, Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, is charged with taking part in massacres of Tutsis in Mugonero and Bisesero. He is a co-defendant with his son, Gerard, who is also in detention in Arusha, Hirondelle stated. Ntakirutimana, 76, was arrested in the US in 1996 but released 14 months later. He was arrested again in 1998 in Texas, where he was living.

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