UGANDAN police on Friday announced that they made the first arrest, of a Ugandan man, in connection with the 1999 murder by suspected Rwandan Hutu extremists in Bwindi National Park of eight western tourists and a Ugandan guide. “He is part of the group that attacked Bwindi and we are still following up some clues for other suspects,” Elizabeth Kuteesa, acting director of the police’s Criminal Investigation Department, said of the man detained at the weekend. She named the detainee as Akim Byorugaba and said he had been arrested in Mbarara, about 260 kilometers southwest of Kampala. Asked if the man was a member of the Interahamwe, the Hutu extremist group that carried out Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and which was widely thought to have killed the tourists in Bwindi, Kuteesa replied: “No, this one is a Ugandan.” On March 1, 1999, some 100 suspected members of the Interahamwe stormed the Bwindi park headquarters, abducted 14 foreign tourists on a gorilla safari and later hacked or bludgeoned to death four Britons, two Americans, two New Zealanders and one Ugandan guide. – AFP