{"id":23528,"date":"2022-09-29T13:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=23528"},"modified":"2022-09-29T13:13:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:13:04","slug":"felicien-kabuga-rwanda-genocide-suspect-goes-on-trial-at-the-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/09\/29\/felicien-kabuga-rwanda-genocide-suspect-goes-on-trial-at-the-hague\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e9licien Kabuga: Rwanda genocide suspect goes on trial at The Hague"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the alleged masterminds and financiers of the 1994 Rwandan genocide has gone on trial at a UN tribunal in The Hague.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prosecutors say F\u00e9licien Kabuga aided and abetted hit squads in the slaughter of ethnic Tutsis, and used a radio station to incite hatred against them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the genocide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Kabuga’s lawyers have filed a not guilty plea for him but he has refused to attend the opening of the trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Kabuga, in his late 80s, was once one of Rwanda’s richest men and for decades he was among the world’s most wanted fugitives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was arrested in France’s capital, Paris, two years ago after evading capture for about 26 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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French investigators spied on Mr Kabuga’s children to track him down to his third-floor flat in the Paris suburb of Asni\u00e8res-sur-Seine, where he had been living under a false identity using a passport from an unidentified African country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He is alleged to have previously lived in several countries in East Africa, including Kenya, where he and his family had business interests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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