Rwanda genocide suspect to claim asylum in South Africa, lawyer says, complicating extradition

Kayishema, a former police officer in Rwanda, is one of the last four fugitives being sought by the United Nations’ International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for genocide and crimes against humanity related to the 100 days of horror that unfolded in the East African nation in 1994. More than 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda’s genocide when militias made up mainly of members of the Hutu ethnic group turned on their Tutsi neighbors. The killings, an attempt to wipe out the minority Tutsis, were triggered on April 6, 1994,...