US jury convicts Rwandan man of lying about role in 1994 genocide
Eric Tabaro Nshimiye, 54, was found guilty in Boston on Tuesday of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. He fled Rwanda for Kenya in 1994 and entered the US as a refugee in 1995.
A US federal jury in Boston, Massachusetts, has found Rwandan-born Eric Tabaro Nshimiye guilty of lying about his role in the 1994 genocide. The verdict came on Tuesday. He was convicted of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Nshimiye, 54, lives in Ohio. He is also known as Nshimiyimana. The charges relate to testimony he gave in 2019 at the trial of Jean Leonard Teganya, The Eastleigh Voice reported. Teganya was convicted in April 2019 of two counts of immigration fraud and three counts of perjury. Prosecutors had accused him of hiding his part in the genocide while seeking asylum in the US. Nshimiye testified for the defence at that trial. He denied that either man took part in the genocide. He also denied that either belonged to the National Revolutionary Movement for Development (MRND), the Hutu-dominated ruling party linked to the killings. Nshimiye fled Rwanda for Kenya in 1994, The Eastleigh Voice reported. He entered the US as a refugee in 1995. The Justice Department said he got in by "failing to disclose his violent participation in the Rwandan genocide to immigration…
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