KIGALI, Rwanda — A former US college professor accused of participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has arrived home after his extradition from the United States.

Leopold Munyakazi was handed over Wednesday to Rwandan police by US officials at Kigali International Airport.

Richard Muhumuza, Rwanda’s prosecutor-general, says the 65-year-old suspect is considered one of the key ideologues of the genocide in which some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and Hutus were killed by Hutu extremists.

Rwanda’s government issued arrest warrants against Munyakazi in 2006 and 2008. He maintained his innocence over the years but lost court appeals to avoid extradition.

Munyakazi fled Rwanda in 2004 and sought refuge in the United States, where he taught French at Goucher College in Baltimore until 2008.

Associated Press