HOULTON — The man arrested Sunday on a warrant out of Canada was found by a Canadian court to be complicit in the deaths of 200 people of Tutsi ethnicity at a Rwandan hospital in 1994 where he was an intern, according to Canadian news reports.

Jean Leonard Teganya, 42, was arrested after he reportedly walked across the border into Maine. He was wanted for deportation for violating human rights under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act related to the Rwandan genocide.

Teganya, a member of the Hutu ethnic majority responsible for the genocide against the Tutsis, settled in Canada in 1999 after spending time in Zaire, Kenya and India, the National Post, a Canadian publication, reported. His first claim for asylum was rejected in 2002 but Teganya appealed the case a handful of times over the next decade.

In October 2012, Teganya’s final appeal was denied and he was ordered deported. Information about whether and when he was removed from Canada and returned to Rwanda was not immediately available Thursday.

“In his appeal for refugee status, Mr. Teganya argued that he was not a participant in the genocide, and that his Hutu ethnicity, the same as the genocide perpetrators, was the only factor that saved him from becoming a victim during the massacre,” according to information posted Oct. 30, 2012, on the website www.canadavisa.com.

In determining Teganya was ineligible for refugee status as someone believed to be complicit in crimes against humanity or war crimes, Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board questioned why Teganya survived and stayed at the hospital. He said he was determined to complete his internship.

“This justification is not reasonable in the context of the Rwandan horror,” the IRB found, according to the National Post. “Although he claims that he did not participate actively in the massacres, the panel … is entitled to ask itself whether the claimant’s passivity in the face of the massacres is not equivalent to endorsing the policies and methods of the party in power.

“The panel is entitled to ask itself why the presence of the claimant on the campus did not seem to concern the extremists, who pursued their dirty work for several weeks.”

Teganya’s last known address in Canada was Laval, Quebec, according to Canada Border Services Agency. Laval is a suburb of Montreal. Teganya has a wife and children living in Canada, according to news reports.

Teganya’s father was a regional leader in the Hutu-led governing Mouvement Révolutionaire National pour le Développement, the party in power at the time of the genocide, the National Post reported. He is serving a 22-year prison sentence in Rwanda.

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