Trial opens at The Hague for alleged financier of Rwandan genocide
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Félicien Kabuga, an octogenarian, was on the run for over two decades before his 2020 arrest in a Paris suburb.
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Alleged Rwandan genocide financier Felicien Kabuga goes on trial in The Hague on Thursday, one of the last main suspects in the 1994 ethnic slaughter that
By Larry Madowo, CNN The trial of one of the last fugitives accused of broadcasting hateful propaganda and arming militias in the 1994 Rwanda genocide has opened at a United Nations court in The Hague. Before opening statements, judges said 87-year-old Félicien Kabuga had refused to attend but ruled…
Félicien Kabuga lived on the run for 23 years before his arrest in France in 2020. He is accused of backing the groups that oversaw the killing of hundreds of thousands of people in 1994.
Felicien Kabuga, who is alleged to have helped finance Rwanda's 1994 genocide, is being tried by a UN tribunal. The 87-year-old has refused to attend the opening of his trial, judges said.
