Paul Rusesabagina arrested for funding terrorism.
Hotel Rwanda Hero, Paul Rusesabagina was put on handcuffs before the Rwandan press in Kigali on Monday.
The internationally recognized hero, who inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda" and saved almost 2000 people in 1994 during the country's ethnocentric genocidal war, is under suspicions of founding and financially backing terrorist outfits behind heinous crimes against humanity on Rwandan soil.
“Rusesabagina is suspected to be the founder, leader, sponsor and member of violent, armed, extremist terror outfits including the Rwanda Movement for Democratic Change (MRCD) operating out of various places in the region and abroad,” says the police. The police also said that there was an international arrest warrant for Rusesabagina to answer to these accusations of serious crimes including terrorism, arson, kidnap and murder, perpetrated against unarmed, innocent Rwandan civilians. The officers did not, however, reveal where exactly Rusesabagina, who had been living outside Rwanda since 1996 in Belgium and then in Texas, United States, was apprehended. Rusesabagina, a vehement critic of the Rwandan government and an opponent to President Paul Kagame, is yet to be officially charged in court and has previously denied these government allegations that he financially supports Rwandan rebels.
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