By Lauren Ferri For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 04:37 BST, 16 May 2019 | Updated: 04:59 BST, 16 May 2019
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Rwandan men accused of murdering eight tourists 20 years ago have recently moved to Australia as part of a secret refugee deal, after they spent years in a detention centre in the United States.
A bloody attack in the Ugandan rainforest in 1999 saw eight tourists killed with machetes and axes, and three Rwandan men were arrested and taken to the US.
However, under a contentious refugee swap negotiated by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and former US President Barack Obama, two of the men were brought to Australia in November.
Under a contentious refugee swap negotiated by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and former US President Barack Obama, two of the men were brought to Australia in November
Rwandan men accused of murdering eight tourists 20 years ago have recently moved to Australia as part of a secret refugee deal
Leonidas Bimenyimana and Gregoire Nyaminani were arrested under terrorism charges and faced the death penalty, US media outlet Politico reported.
However, the case was dropped in 2006 when a US judge found their confession was obtained under torture and they were held in a Virginia immigration detention
