"They just rushed into my classroom with cameras everywhere," says Munyakazi, 49.

The reporters asked the French professor how he responded to being charged with genocide in Rwanda.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about," Munyakazi replied.

Munyakazi says he refused to talk to the camera crew. The next morning news crews knocked on the door of his college-owned two-story brick house across the street from the campus in Towson, Md. He didn’t answer.

Then a reporter and prosecutor visited school authorities with two international arrest warrants and a 21-page indictment.

That’s when Goucher suspended the visiting professor with pay.

On Tuesday, Feb. 3, Munyakazi was arrested for overstaying his visa. He was released with a monitoring device and is now awaiting a hearing to see if he will be allowed to stay in this country, or forced to leave.

While he waits, he was asked not to step foot campus.

"The college placing Dr. Munyakazi on suspension is in no way condemning him, or justifying these allegations," says Kristen Keener, director of media relations for Goucher College. The school has been swamped with reporters and camera crews the week after the news broke, she says. But, they are serious allegations, and if someone is accused of killing people, they can't be on campus with students.

"The tricky thing is, the documentation is coming from a country that's in upheaval,” Keener adds. “Anybody who's been outspoken or critical of the government in power could be charged with things that have no basis in truth. That’s where things get really complicated.”

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Nearly a million people were killed in the widely reported genocide in Rwanda. Munyakazi says he participated in no way and calls himself a moderate Hutu that wanted peace. "I protected people," he says, adding that he would never harm a Tutsi. "My wife is Tutsi," he says.