London/Kigali — A Rwandan suspected to be one of the main perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide has been discovered in the small British town of Bedford, where he lives peacefully with his family. Charles Munyaneza, who lives under false identity as Charles "Muneza" has been tracked down by the British media after evading justice for years.

According to a report in The Sunday Times of January 29, Munyaneza, 47, is accused of helping to organise the massacre of Tutsis in former Gikongoro and Butare in the current southern province in 1994. He fled to South Africa after the fall of the genocidal regime and entered Britain in 1999 where he sought asylum as a refugee.

In 2002, Munyaneza was granted refugee status by the British Home Office and allowed unlimited stay in the United Kingdom. Little did they know they had welcomed a suspected mass killer to their country. His neighbours in Bedford's Putnoe District had no idea about his past, according to media reports.

Munyaneza, whose alleged associate, Lieutenant Colonel Aloys Simba, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the Genocide last December by the UN tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, is alleged to have urged Hutus to kill Tutsis saying "all of you, men, women and girls, must take part. I don't want to see a single Tutsi alive on this hill."

The ICTR has stopped issuing indictments so it can wind up its work in 2008, but has requested Britain to prosecute Munyaneza on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

The ICTR Chief Prosecutor Hassan Boubakar Jallow is quoted as saying that the tribunal would avail all evidence against Munyaneza to British authorities. Said Jallow: "Given that there is this evidence against him, the British government should consider whether the British courts have jurisdiction over him to prosecute him in the UK because people like him should not be allowed to go scot free."

Evidence against Munyaneza, a former local mayor of Kinyamakara district in Gikongoro now working as a cleaner in Bedford, emerged during Aloys Simba's trial in Arusha, where witness after witness testified that he had "acted in concert" with the lieutenant colonel.

Challenged about his role in the Rwandan Genocide by the Sunday Times journalist, Munyaneza is reported to have refused to comment and only said "sorry." Not sorry for what he's alleged to have done though, because he thinks it is nobody's business to ask him to account for his actions. Asked why he was living in Britain under a false name, "it is not your business," he replied.

Rwandan officials said they are aware of Munyaneza's presence in the UK. Speaking on phone from Kigali, Deputy Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga, said, "Yes we are aware of his presence in the UK.

The suspects still at large want to quietly melt into their new unsuspecting communities hoping to conceal their past forever.

Meanwhile, African Rights, a human rights group, through a report published Tuesday 31, has called for an immediate detention and trial of Charles Munyaneza for his alleged role in the Genocide.

In the report, the group quoted over 30 witnesses, and carries testimonies from officials and militiamen who worked alongside Munyaneza as well as survivors and local residents.

One of the survivors, Drocelle Kantetere, described Munyaneza as "one of the pillars of the Genocide," adding: "The fact that he has not been arrested trivialises the catastrophic effects of the Genocide in Rwanda," she said. Africa Rights has asked Britain first to rescind his refugee status before bringing him to justice.

"Munyaneza has never faced charges for his actions in the 1994 Genocide. He has instead lived a peaceful life abroad, while the few survivors of his atrocities continue to mourn their loved ones," the report reads in part.

The report alleges that Munyaneza coordinated a series of large scale massacres at the Agricultural Research Centre of ISAR/Isonga, in Ruhashya in the former Butare province and at Cyanika Catholic Church in former Gikongoro province.

"Munyaneza ordered for the setting up of roadblocks in Kinyamakara, and then he held a meeting in Kamwambi with the residents and opinion leaders of Kamweru, Muhanga and Bitare. After that, the killings began. They 'cleaned out' all the Tutsis in the area," the report quoted one Alvera Icyizanye, a former resident of Muhange sector.

He is accused of not only having ordered the killings, but also physically participated in the Genocide to demonstrate to his cronies how work was supposed to be done.

The former bourgmeistre is also accused by African Rights of having exported the massacres to other parts of the country.

Despite the best efforts by both the UN tribunal and the Rwandan government to bring the perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide to justice, it is believed that hundreds of suspects are still living in comfortable hideouts around the world. By assuming new false identities, one other characteristic shared by all has been to avoid the bustling life of big cities in favour of a quiet and peaceful life in small rural towns or villages.