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Mr. Teganya, the eldest son of a convicted war criminal in Rwanda, was a medical student interning at Butare University Hospital when Hutu extremist militia killed nearly 200 Tutsi patients, staff and moderate Hutus, one incident of brutality in the 1994 genocide, when more than 800,000 people were killed during 100 days of violence.

The Federal Court of Canada, during many legal challenges to stay in Canada, heard evidence of lists being drafted of patients and staff at the hospital to be targeted and of Tutsi patients being turned away to face death by marauding militiamen.

He fled Rwanda after the worst of the killing and claimed refugee protection in Canada in 1999.

The Immigration and Refugee Board twice rejected his asylum claim, declaring he had direct knowledge of atrocities and, as a result, was deemed to have been complicit. A second decision concluded the same in 2005.

Mr. Teganya insisted he was not involved in the violence and that his Hutu ethnicity is the only thing that saved him from being a victim himself, and yet he stayed at the hospital to complete his internship.

The Federal Court accepted that because he was “left unscathed” during such a purge it was evidence he was “considered to be an extremist” by the militants.

After many failed legal challenges, a last-ditch emergency appeal to remain in Canada was rejected just 18 hours before his deportation, scheduled for Oct. 23, 2012.

But Mr. Teganya seems to have avoided that flight. No officials in Canada would confirm whether Mr. Teganya was successfully removed or not. Three months after his scheduled removal, however, on Jan. 31, 2013, then-Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced that Mr. Teganya was being placed on Canada Border Services Agency’s “Wanted” list, a public list of foreigners wanted for removal from Canada.