Switzerland Arrests Suspected Rwandan

A Rwandan accused of killing a man and ordering his family buried alive during ethnic massacres last year has been arrested, prosecutors said Thursday.

They said they have begun proceedings against Alfred Musema in military court, which under Swiss law handles crimes committed during wartime, for massacres in April 1994 in western Rwanda.

Musema was arrested last week after he was spotted by a fellow Rwandan crossing a street in Lausanne, the newspaper Le Nouveau Quotidien reported.

Musema ran a tea factory in Kibuye. According to witnesses, some 15,000 people were massacred in the Kibuye area.

Swiss authorities haven’t said what the charges are against Musema, or whether he is a member of Rwanda’s majority Hutu or minority Tutsi tribes. An estimated 500,000 people, most of them Tutsi, were massacred last year after Rwanda’s Hutu president died in an unexplained plane crash in April.