Felicien Kabuga, one of the last key fugitives wanted over the genocide, was arrested at his home outside Paris.
File: 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, on May 19, 2020.PARIS - A Rwandan tycoon charged over the country's 1994 genocide and arrested in France over the weekend will challenge a bid to extradite him to an international court, his lawyers said on Tuesday.
The tribunal formally closed in 2015 and its duties have since been taken over by the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals .Kabuga"opposes his transfer to Arusha", said his lawyers Laurent Bayon and Emmanuel Altit in a statement. Around 800,000 people -- Tutsis but also moderate Hutus -- were slaughtered over 100 days by ethnic Hutu extremists during the 1994 genocide.Kabuga is accused of creating the notorious Interahamwe militia that carried out massacres and the Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines which, in its broadcasts, incited people to murder.
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