Rwanda genocide architect arrested in Paris after 26 years on the run

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-rwanda-arrest-neighbours/he-wouldnt-say-a-word-rwanda-genocide-fugitive-lived-incognito-in-paris-idUSKBN22T0RE

'He wouldn't say a word' - Rwanda genocide fugitive lived incognito in Paris
May 17, 2020

PARIS (Reuters) - Rwandan genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga, whose arrest on Saturday ended 26 years on the run, was a frail, elderly man who said little to neighbours and who would take a stroll most days outside of his apartment in a well-off suburb of Paris.

Kabuga, 84, Rwanda’s most wanted man with a $5 million bounty on his head, had been living under a false name in a five-storey apartment block in Asnieres-sur-Seine with the help of his children, according to France’s justice ministry.

A Hutu businessman, he is accused of creating and making contributions to a fund that raised finances to pay the youth militias that would slaughter some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, as well as importing huge numbers of machetes, according to the UN tribunal’s indictment.

One of Rwanda’s richest men before the genocide, Kabuga controlled many of the central African nation’s coffee and tea plantations and factories. He also co-owned Radio Television Milles Collines, whose radio station broadcast anti-Tutsi messages that fanned the ethnic hatred.

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1. Excellent news.