The Rt. Rev. Samuel Musabyimana, one-time bishop of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda, was arrested in Kenya April 26. He is charged with genocide and conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity.

Bishop Musabyimana was to appear before the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on May 2. The ICTR indictment alleges among other things that during the 1994 massacre of Tutsi and moderate Hutu tribes of Rwanda the bishop encouraged refugees to abandon their hiding places and seek sanctuary within the diocese.

According to the indictment, he then allegedly betrayed those refugees systematically in a variety of ways, including paying militia members who carried out the killings.

The Rev. Athanase Ngilinshuti, a diocesan subordinate of Bishop Musabyimana, was convicted and sentenced to death by a Rwandan military court in 1999 for his part in the massacre. Among the crimes for which he was convicted was registering refugees according to their ethnicity, allegedly at the request of the bishop, then turning the list and weapons over to members of a militia group.