Kabuga ‘could be transferred to Arusha this year’
The alleged financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, arrested in France
after 25 years on the run, will be transferred to the war crimes tribunal in
Arusha, Tanzania, once conditions allow it, a judge in The Hague has ruled.
The judge was replying to a request for Felicien Kabuga to be
temporarily transferred to The Hague given travel restrictions in place because
of the coronavirus pandemic.
Described as Africa's most wanted man, Kabuga has been held in a French
jail since his May 16 arrest at his home outside Paris.
Kabuga was indicted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
in 1997 on seven counts, including genocide, incitement to genocide and crimes
against humanity.
The tribunal, headquartered in Arusha, Tanzania, formally closed in 2015 and its duties were t...
