⁍ Félicien Kabuga was on the run for 22 years until his arrest in France in May.
⁍ U.N. prosecutors accuse Kabuga of bankrolling and importing machetes for ethnic Hutu militias which killed hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda during a 100-day period in 1994.
⁍ Kabiga faces allegations of genocide, complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity.
– After 22 years on the run, Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga has been transferred to the Netherlands, where he will be tried for crimes against humanity, Reuters reports. Kabuga, 84, was arrested in France in May and is accused of bankrolling and importing machetes for ethnic Hutu militias that killed hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda during the country’s 1994 genocide. He faces charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, and crimes against humanity. Kabuga, a former tea and coffee tycoon, is likely to spend several months in the Hague and could then still be tried in Tanzania, where he is accused of bankrolling and importing machetes for ethnic Hutu militias which killed hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda during a 100-day period in 1994. Dutch prosecutors said today they had arrested a 71-year-old Rwandan man who had been living in the Netherlands for 20 years, after receiving a request for his extradition from authorities in Kigali. The man’s name was not released, but prosecutors described him in a statement as a former banker and pharmacy owner accused of having prepared a list of Tutsis to be killed by militias in 1994.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-warcrimes-rwanda/rwandan-genocide-suspect-in-detention-in-the-hague-idUSKBN27B1W7