US jury convicts Rwandan American of lying about role in genocide
Summary
A federal jury in Boston convicted Eric Nshimiye of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. Prosecutors said he lied under oath in a 2019 trial about his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide; his lawyers challenged witness accounts and asked the court to credit his time in custody toward any sentence.Key Facts
- Nshimiye is a 55-year-old Rwandan American and U.S. citizen who became a citizen in 2009.
- The jury found that he lied while testifying in the 2019 trial of Jean Leonard Teganya, who was later convicted of helping perpetrate the genocide.
- U.S. investigators arrested Nshimiye at his Ohio home in 2024.
- Prosecutors dropped an immigration-fraud charge before Nshimiye’s trial began.
- Witnesses from Rwanda testified that Nshimiye took part in killings and other violence against Tutsis in Butare in 1994.
- The 1994 genocide killed more than 800,000 people over about 100 days.
- Nshimiye’s attorneys asked the court to count the roughly two and a half years he had spent in custody toward any sentence.
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