Hague trial opens for tycoon in Rwanda genocide

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 30, 2022 12:01 am

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.

This Aug. 18, 2022 screengrab from video footage shows Felicien Kabuga, an alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, at a hearing in The Hague, Netherlands. MECHANISM FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS IMAGE VIA AFP

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