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Rwandan who sought asylum after genocide faces U.S. fraud charge

A Rwandan man who Sought Asylum in the United States claiming he fled the African nation’s genocide of 1994 was charged by U.S. prosecutors on Friday with lying about having been part of the political party that led the killing.
Jean Leonard Teganya, 46, left Rwanda during the year that members of a hard-line Hutu regime massacred an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in three months of slaughter, prosecutors in Boston said.
Teganya traveled through Congo and India before arriving in Canada in 1999. He twice Sought asylum there but was denied after Canadian officials concluded he took part in atrocities against Tutsis at the hospital where he worked as a trainee in the southern city of Butare, prosecutors said, citing witnesses.
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