Top fugitive in Rwanda's genocide arrested outside Paris
Source: AP
By IGNATIUS SSUUNA
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) One of the most wanted fugitives in Rwandas 1994 genocide, a wealthy businessman accused of supplying machetes to killers and broadcasting propaganda urging mass slaughter, has been arrested outside Paris, authorities said Saturday.
Felicien Kabuga, who had a $5 million bounty on his head, had been accused of equipping militias in the genocide that killed more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them.
The 84-year-old Kabuga was arrested as a result of a joint investigation with the U.N.s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals office of the prosecutor, French authorities said.
He had been living in a town north of Paris, Asnieres-Sur-Seine, under an assumed name, the appeals courts prosecutors office said.
FILE - In this Friday, April 5, 2019 file photo, family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial centre in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. Felicien Kabuga, one of the most wanted fugitives in Rwanda's 1994 genocide who had a $5 million bounty on his head, has been arrested in Paris, authorities said Saturday, May 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)denvine
(802 posts)He should have to face the horrors he incited, every minute of every day for the rest of his miserable life.
Ford_Prefect
(7,917 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)nycbos
(6,035 posts)I met a survivor of the genocide and the French were certainly not instrumental in preventing it
They did send troops, but they stood around and did nothing.
The Hutus that did the genocide were not at all worried about the French as they viewed them as supporters of the Hutu government
If you look up RTLM (Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines) it's really rather disgusting
What is worse is that it could have been prevented had the west agreed to jam the stations signal. The French were one of the loudest opponents
Also, read up on Operation Turquoise
The RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front), not truly great people at the time either were finally able to overrun the Hutus (and neutralize the French) and push them from the country.
To the RPF's credit, they did refrain from exacting revenge against the Hutus -- the RPF was supported by some Hutus.
The French government has consistently tried to claim they did all they could and have been opposed to anything that casts them in a negative light in the genocide
So, yes, I think he figured he'd be able to stay there.
The French government probably knew he was there and were providing him with some protection until they couldn't
marble falls
(57,150 posts)denbot
(9,901 posts)Evil bastard.