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Jun
10
2023
By WENDELL ROELF
Rwandan genocide suspect faces 54 fraud, immigration charges in South Africa

Rwandan genocide suspect faces 54 fraud, immigration charges in South Africa

NEWS
SOUTH African prosecutors significantly increased the number of charges they are bringing against Rwandan ex-police officer Fulgence Kayishema, who is wanted internationally for suspected participation in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. On the run for two decades, Kayishema was arrested on May 24 under a false name on a grape farm in South Africa where, according to a prosecutor, refugees working there gave him up. He now faces 54 separate charges in South Africa relating to fraud and immigration offences, up from five previously, prosecutors spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said outside a Cape Town court. Kayishema had been a fugitive from justice since 2001 when…
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Jun
08
2023
By STEPHANIE VAN DEN BERG and CHARLOTTE VAN CAMPENHOUT
Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to stand trial

Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to stand trial

NEWS
JUDGES at a U.N. war crimes court ruled that elderly Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga is unfit to stand trial but said slimmed-down legal proceedings in his case can continue, in a decision published. The former businessman and radio station owner was one of the last suspects sought by the tribunal prosecuting crimes committed in the 1994 genocide when ruling Hutu majority extremists killed more than 800,000 minority Tutsis and Hutu moderates in 100 days. Kabuga is in his late 80s, though his precise date of birth is disputed. He was arrested in France in 2020 after more than 20…
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Oct
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Rwandan genocide suspect in detention in The Hague

Rwandan genocide suspect in detention in The Hague

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RWANDAN genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga is in custody in The Hague after his transfer from France following a United Nations court order. Kabuga, who was on the run for 22 years until his arrest in France in May, will soon be brought before a judge, the United Nations tribunal said in a statement. Last week a U.N. judge ordered his transfer to the Netherlands, rather than to a U.N. detention unit in Tanzania, out of health considerations amid the coronavirus pandemic. Kabuga, 84, is likely to spend at least several months in The Hague and could then still be tried…
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Oct
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga can be sent to U.N. court

Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga can be sent to U.N. court

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TANGI SALAUN RWANDAN genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga can be handed over to a United Nations tribunal in Tanzania, France's top civil court has ruled, dismissing his lawyers' arguments that he is too frail to be extradited. U.N. prosecutors accuse the former tea and coffee tycoon of bankrolling and importing huge numbers of machetes for ethnic Hutu militias who killed hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda during a 100-day period in 1994. Kabuga's arrest in Paris in May ended a manhunt lasting more than two decades. He has denounced the charges, including genocide and incitement to commit…
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