A RWANDAN human rights official on Tuesday accused Belgian army officers of having protected an exiled former mayor wanted by a UN tribunal to answer charges of genocide. The Belgian justice minister said on Tuesday that former mayor and top paramilitary Augustin Ndindiliyimana was arrested on Friday at his home in Belgium at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which sits in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha. “General Ndindiliyimana was protected by Belgian soldiers,” said Gasana Ndoba, president of the national human rights commission, a body appointed by Rwanda’s unelected interim government. “We have reconstructed the itinerary that led him to Belgium after the (1994), genocide and we know that several high-ranking Belgian officers, at least colonels, helped him arrive in Belgium and to obtain refugee status,” said Ngoba, who enjoys the rank of minister in Rwanda.