After 26 years on the run, on May 16, French authorities revealed that genocide architect Felicien Kabuga had been arrested in Paris, France.
According to a statement released after the arrest, the elusive suspect was arrested by French authorities as a result of a joint investigation with the IRMCT (International Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals) Office of the Prosecutor and other law enforcement and prosecution services from various countries including Rwanda.
Kabuga , who is now aged 85, was indicted by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1997 on seven counts of genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, attempt to commit genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, persecution, and extermination, all in relation to crimes committed during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
It is good that Felicien Kabuga was arrested because it would be absurd to know that he is freely roaming around when everyone knows how he financed the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi that claimed over a million lives.
Valerie Mukabayire, President of Avega Agahozo, a national association of widows of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi
Kabuga was a key player in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, and his acts made contributed a lot to the genocide.
