Two former mayors suspected to have taken part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have been arrested in Mukugwa refugee camp, Kigoma region, northwestern Tanzania, at the request of the International criminal tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the independent ‘Hirondelle’ news agency reported on Thursday. One of the suspects, Sylvestre Gacumbitsi - who was mayor of Rusomo in Kibungo prefecture, eastern Rwanda, at the time of the genocide - had already been transferred to the UN Detention Facility (UNDF) in Arusha, northern Tanzania, where the ICTR sits, the report said. The other suspect, Jean Mpambara, was mayor of Rukara commune, also in Kibungo, during the genocide, it added. Gacumbitsi and Mpambara are alleged to have supervised the massacre of Tutsi civilians in their communes.
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