Johannesburg - Long-simmering bitterness between the Vatican and the Rwandan government has come to a head with the arrest of a prominent Catholic bishop accused of genocide crimes. Bishop Augustin Misago (58) was detained on Wednesday for allegedly collaborating in the murder of dozens of children during the 1994 genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis.
The bishop is the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church arrested to date. Nineteen priests have been convicted of genocide and jailed, while two were sentenced to death for their role in the massacre of several thousand people who sought refuge in their church.