US jury convicts Rwandan American of lying about role in genocide

A federal jury in Boston convicted Eric Nshimiye of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for lying about his role in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. In 2019, he testified that neither he nor his former roommate Jean Leonard Teganya had taken part in the killing and rape of Tutsis in Butare; Teganya was later convicted of helping perpetrate the genocide. Arrested at his Ohio home in 2024, Nshimiye became a US citizen in 2009 and was also accused of lying to immigration officials, but prosecutors dropped that charge before trial.