A financial backer of the Tutsis genocide was arrested but he won’t be tried because he is suffering from dementia
Félicien Kabuga, once the wealthiest man in Rwanda who has been accused of financing the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus was recently arrested in Paris for the crimes but he won’t stand trial because he is suffering from “severe dementia,†United Nations war crimes court has ruled.
Kabuga was arrested in Paris in 2020 and denied that he financed the execution of Tutsis. More than 800,000 Tutsis were killed during the period of genocide.
The Tutsis are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi.
From April through June 1994, the U.N. estimates Rwandans brutally slaughtered Tutsis by fellow neighbors in a state-led genocide targeting the Tutsi ethnic group. About 75% of the Tutsi population was killed. Kabuga was 89 when police took him into custody.
Kabuga became the wealthiest man in Rwanda by importing tea. He was arrested in a Paris suburb after 26 years on the run.