Rwanda genocide
Rwanda genocide 'financier' to face UN judges
More than two decades after he was first indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Felicien Kabuga was arrested near Paris on 16 May.
Felicien 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.
Rwandan investigators announced last month the surprise arrest of Paul Rusesabagina, a high-profile government critic who had been living abroad for years, to stand trial in his homeland for allegedly creating and sponsoring armed militias.
His family of Paul Rusesabagina, who had been living abroad since 1996, said he would never voluntarily return to certain prosecution in Rwanda, where he is seen as a traitor and accused of questioning the genocide.
Felicien Kabuga, who is 84 according to officals, but claims to be 87, was arrested in May at his home outside Paris after 25 years on the run. He is accused of being a leading financier of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
France opened a probe into alleged crimes against humanity by Ntiwiragabo after he was found in the suburbs of the city of Orleans, about 100 kilometres south-west of Paris.
Felicien Kabuga was indicted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1997 on seven counts, including genocide.
Felicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda's richest men, was living under a false identity in the Paris suburbs, the public prosecutor's office and police said in a joint statement.
President Paul Kagame said in a recorded speech carried on the state-run broadcaster that Rwanda had to remember the genocide despite the coronavirus outbreak.
Fabien Neretse, who protested his innocence, is the first person to be convicted in Belgium on such a charge and he now faces a possible life sentence.
For many survivors, forgiveness remains difficult when the bodies of their loved ones have not been found and many killers are still free.
Whipped up by extremist propaganda, the people of Giheta - from the ethnic Hutu majority - attacked their longtime neighbours in Ruseke from the Tutsi minority.
The probe has been a major source of tension between the two countries after seven people, close to President Paul Kagame, were charged in the French investigation.
The long-running probe has been a major source of tension between the two countries.
The claims were contained in a new report released by a Washington law firm on Wednesday.
Diane Rwigara spoke out against Paul Kagame’s autocratic regime and was disqualified from running against him in presidential elections earlier this month.
Paul Kagame restored stability to Rwanda after its 1994 genocide, presiding over rapid economic growth and a relatively corruption-free government.
The Catholic Church in Rwanda last year publicly sought forgiveness for the part played by some of its members.
In May, a Swedish court sentenced a man to life in prison for the same 1994 genocide in Rwanda.