France to Rule on Fate of Alleged Rwanda Genocide Financier
A top French appeals court is to rule Wednesday on whether alleged
Rwandan genocide financier Felicien Kabuga will stand trial in France or face a
UN tribunal in Tanzania.
Kabuga, who is 84 according to officials but claims to be 87, was
arrested in May at his home outside Paris after 25 years on the run.
The 1994 Rwanda genocide of some 800,000 people by Hutu extremists
targeted rival Tutsis as well as also moderate Hutus.
Once one of Rwanda’s richest men, Kabuga is alleged to have funnelled
money to militia groups as 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.
A French court ruled in June that Ka...