French court allows transfer of suspect Felicien Kabuga to Tanzania where a UN body will try him over his role in financing 1994 genocide of some 800,000 people in Rwanda
In this file photo taken on May 19, 2020 a red cross is seen drawn on the face of Felicien Kabuga, one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, on a wanted poster at the Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit office in Kigali, Rwanda.
Accused of financing the 1994 genocide of some 800,000 people, Kabuga had asked for a trial in France and can still appeal the decision to hand him over to the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals . His lawyers argued before the Paris court that the 84-year-old should be allowed to stay in France because of his advanced age, poor health and an alleged lack of impartiality displayed by international courts.A judge in The Hague ruled last month, however, that Kabuga should be tried in Arusha, Tanzania, under the UN's MICT.
Kabuga, once one of Rwanda's richest men, was indicted by the tribunal in 1997 on seven counts, including genocide.
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