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Rwanda: Rwandans In France Welcome Decision to Extradite Genocide Suspect Kabuga to UN
RFI, 30 September 2020
Rwandans in France have welcomed a ruling by the country's top appeals court to extradite the alleged financier of the Rwandan genocide, Félicien Kabuga, to Tanzania to… Read more »
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Rwanda: What's at Stake in the Kabuga Trial
JusticeInfo.net, 1 October 2020
What are the consequences of the arrest last May in France of Félicien Kabuga, considered to be one of the main perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide? French sociologist… Read more »
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Rwanda: Genocide Suspect Kabuga to Learn Extradition Fate On 30 September
RFI, 2 September 2020
Félicien Kabuga will find out at the end of the month whether he will be handed over to international judges for his alleged role in bankrolling the Rwandan genocide after… Read more »
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Rwanda: Kabuga 'Could Be Transferred to Arusha This Year'
New Times, 25 August 2020
Félicien Kabuga, a key suspect accused of playing a leading role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, is likely to be transferred to the UN tribunal in Arusha,… Read more »
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Rwanda: The People That Met Genocide Financier Félicien Kabuga
New Times, 7 August 2020
Kabuga is renowned as the financier of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, which claimed a million innocent lives in a period of three months. Read more »
Case of Rwanda Genocide Suspect Kabuga Moves to Arusha Court
Alleged financier of the Rwandan genocide, Félicien Kabuga, will now be extradited to Tanzania to stand trial in a UN court in Arusha. Kabuga, who was arrested in May 2020 after 25 years on the run, had asked to face justice in Paris. He is to be tried on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for allegedly funnelling money to militia groups, while chairman of the national defence fund. He is also accused of setting up the Interahamwe militia that carried out massacres as well as the Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines, whose broadcasts incited people to murder. He has denied all the charges. France now has one month to hand Kabuga over to the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, which took over from the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda when it closed in 2015.
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Paul Rusesabagina, the subject of the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda" in which he is portrayed saving Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has appeared in a Kigali court. The ... Read more »
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Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga called the charges against him lies in a French courtroom on Wednesday. After the presiding judge read out the offences that Kabuga was ... Read more »
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Ladislas Ntaganzwa, 58, will spend the rest of his life behind bars for genocide crimes he committed during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi when he was mayor of of ... Read more »
Pictures of Felicen Kabuga on the U.S. State Department's website about fugitives from justice.
