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After escaping from an indescribable slaughter and sexual violence, the Rwandan beekeepers settled in a quiet life with his family in Hamptons, and resumed the humble profession that forced him to give up when nearly a million of his citizens and women were slaughtered.
But his new life in Long Island is a dark secret, according to federal prosecutors.
Instead of fleeing the genocide, the prosecutors say, the man, Foston Nesapomoiconzi, was a participant in that. The ethnic majority directed Hutos to kill the Tutsis minority, personally attacked Tutsi with a club and ordered the Huto men to get rid of the dead Tutsi bodies, in reference to them as “garbage” and “garbage”.
After that, he lied about his involvement in bloodshed when he sought a refugee place in the United States in 2003, and again when applied to become a permanent resident and citizen, according to prosecutors in the eastern region of New York.
Mr. Nsabumukunzi was arrested on Thursday morning in Bridhammeton, New York, on charges of defrauding immigration. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted. But he can also be deported to Rwanda, where he was searched for nearly two decades.
Judge Joanna Sepert appeared in the middle of ISLIP, and Mr. Nsabumukunzi wore a dark shirt and shirt. He acknowledged that he was not guilty, with his 38 -year -old son Terry, who was supported, and he was released on a bond worth $ 250,000. The bond was published by Steve Filcher, a man who works as Mr. NSABUMUKUNZI Capsani.
In the controversy to release his client on bail, Ivan Schujer, the lawyer of Mr. Nfomokonzi, indicated that he has no financial way to escape from the country and suffer from arthritis.
“We are talking about a 65 -year -old child with a broken body,” said Mr. Schujer.
The Rwandan genocide, one of the most methodological killings in modern history, has arose from the long tensions between Hotos and Tutsi. The slaughter began on April 7, 1994, after a plane carrying the heads of Rwanda and Burundi, both of them were shot down, where it landed in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.
It is still unclear who ordered the assassination, but the Rwanda -led Rwanda government immediately blamed the Tutsi rebels. Radio Hotel, with their listeners, has commanded “the genocide of cockroaches” and “cutting long trees”, referring to Tutsi.
Over the course of three months in 1994, the Huto men systematically hunting for men and women in Tutsi. Hotos burned tutsi homes, penetrated them to death with machines and raped them collectively. By July, about 800,000 Tutsi were killed.
In the fall of 2024, investigators traveled to Rwanda to meet witnesses with ethnic cleansing. He told these investigators that Mr. NSABUMUKUNZI was more than just beekeepers: as a municipal official, Kibirizi, helped in the massacre engineer.
“It was somewhat from the head of a local personality,” said Samantha Alysi, an American lawyer.
In the early days of genocide, Mr. Nsabumukunzi confirmed in public meetings that they will be safe from violence, in order to prevent them from escaping. After that, holding special meetings with only Hotos, who directed him to kill the Tutsi, helped prepare road barriers outside the totsi homes to prevent them from escaping.
Two weeks after the start of the genocide, Mr. NSABUMUKUNZI directed a group of Huto men to kill Tutsi, which gathered on the basis of his administrative office. Later, prosecutors said, encouraging rape and sexual enslavement of Tutsi women.
In 2008, while he was in the United States, Mr. Nsabumukunzi was convicted of a “community” Rwandan court and sentenced to prison. Six years later, Rwanda Prosecutor charged him again on charges of genocide. In 2016, the Interpol office in Rwanda issued a notification of Mr. NSABUMUUKUNZI.
Mr. Schujer said in court on Thursday that the issue of the US government relied on evidence about an event in which the facts are mysterious. He pointed out that Mr. NSABUMUKUNZI was not accused by the United Nations International Gendotonial Court.
Mr. Nsabumukunzi was classified in an article issued by the New York Times in 2006, which he described as a refugee of violence who lived a relatively comfortable life before genocide. In Rwanda, Mr. Nsabumukunzi supervised 150 beekeepers and 1500 cells, according to the article; In the Long Island, he supervised about 100 Khalla for Hamptons Honey Company, which hired it to increase its production.
Gabriel Aldaya, the owner of Hamptons Honey since 2009, said he was not aware that Mr. NSABUMUKUNZI was working for the company and never met him.
Many people Those who fled from Rwanda to other countries have been arrested on murder charges.
Beatrice Moniniesi, a Rwandan woman, was Heal For 10 years in prison in 2013 by a federal judge in the state of Massachusetts for not being disclosed in genocide, similar to Mr. NSABUMUKUNZI. She was deported to Rwanda in February, where she was quickly Heal To life imprisonment.
On Thursday morning, when Mr. NSABUMUKUNZI was read on the charge while arresting, he seemed to be aware of the severity of his situation.
He said, according to the prosecutors: “I know I have finished.”