U.S. sends Australia the final guerrilla accused in tourist massacre
Politico•November 22, 2019
The last of three Rwandan guerrillas who once faced U.S. death-penalty terrorism charges for a massacre of western tourists two decades ago was deported from the U.S. to Australia last week, victims’ family members said.
Francois Karake, 55, was released from an immigration detention center in Miami last Tuesday and arrived in Australia on Thursday. He spent more than 16-and-a-half years in U.S. custody after being accused with two other men of first-degree murder over their involvement in the slayings of two Americans and six other Western tourists, along with at least one local guard, during a 1999 rampage through a gorilla-watching preserve in Uganda.
An exclusive POLITICO Magazine report in May detailed how Australia was asked to take the trio of Rwandan guerrillas as part of a secretive “refugee swap†deal with the U.S struck in the final months of President Barack Obama’s second term. President Donald Trump publicly and privately trashed the pact with Australia as unfair to the U.S., but was ultimately persuaded to stifle his objections and let it proceed.
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