The Rwandan government has formally requested the extradition of a suspected Rwandan Hutu militia leader from the Netherlands, over his alleged role in the country’s 1994 genocide.
A Dutch court will now consider the decision to extradite the suspect, identified only as "Jean-Claude I.", who was arrested in July of this year.
Dutch prosecutors stated,
"I. is being suspected of being an armed leader of the Interahamwe who participated in attacks on Tutsis."
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Under Dutch law, foreign suspects can be tried for genocide, if the act was committed after October 1970. Earlier this year, a Rwandan born Dutch citizen was jailed for genocide, in the first conviction of its kind.