Emmanuel Nteziryayo, 69, lives in Wythenshawe, South Manchester. In 1994, he was a mayor in Rwanda. He is alleged to have worked with the interahahmwe militia, assisting them in the massacre of thousands of Tutsis, especially at the infamous Murambi massacre. He is said to have ordered their burial in large pits using a digger, and assisted the recruitment of further interahahmwe during the later part of the genocide.
In May 2018 the two bourgmeisters (mayors), who had fled to France after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, had the trial verdict of guilty of genocide upheld by the Paris Criminal Court. It ended a long judicial case that had begun nine years earlier. It was found they used their position to organise and lead militia to massacre Tutsis – including the horrific attack at Kabarondo churching April 1994 that led to 2,000 unarmed, defenceless Tutsis – men, women, children, babies – being hacked to death.