Genocide des Tutsis au Rwanda : Félicien Kabuga states “inapte” à être jugé par l’ONU
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Félicien Kabuga, who faces charges of financing the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda in 1994, cannot be tried. According to AFP, a United Nations criminal court based in The Hague decided this. According to him, the accused cannot participate in the trial and the possibility that this will change in the future is very small.
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According to the court, Kabuga “was unable to meaningfully participate in his trial and it is highly unlikely that his physical condition will improve in the future”. Therefore, the court will seek ways to initiate alternative procedures with the man “which will be as similar as possible to a trial, but without the possibility of conviction”.
In March, lawyers for Kabug said their client, who according to various sources was aged between 88 and 90, had dementia. Last August, Kabuga appeared in court in a wheelchair and hearing aid and was under medical observation at a military hospital.
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A former tea and coffee trader and once one of Rwanda’s richest men, he was arrested after decades on the run in France in 2020 and then transferred to The Hague.
He faces charges including genocide, complicity in genocide, incitement to genocide and crimes against humanity, AFP reported.
Prosecutors accused Kabuga of running RTLM radio, which incited hatred against ethnic Tutsis. According to the indictment, he also financed the Hutu militia that massacred hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the mid-1990s. According to the prosecutor’s office, he also armed the militia with machetes and other weapons.
The UN Mechanism for the International Criminal Court (MICT) continues the work of the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (ICTR), which between 1997 and 2015 convicted more than 60 people convicted of genocide. In 1994, according to the United Nations, 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis, lost their lives during this time.
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