THE HAGUE, Netherlands: Rwandan tycoon Felicien Kabuga played a crucial role in the 1994 genocide that shocked the world, prosecutors said as he boycotted the opening of his own trial in The Hague on Thursday.
The last major suspect from the slaughter, the now-87-year-old set up a hate broadcaster that urged ethnic Hutus to kill rival Tutsi "cockroaches" and armed the murderous Interahamwe militia with machetes, a United Nations tribunal heard.
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