The alleged Rwandan genocide financier will not have to stand trial due to health issues, the UN war crimes tribunal said on Wednesday.
Félicien Kabuga, nearly 90, suffers from dementia and cannot follow the trial, the court said, referring to crimes committed in 1994. The trial should continue in another way to determine the guilt of the accused, but no sentence will be imposed, the court said.
He is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity. According to prosecutors, he actively supported and helped carry out the massacres.
It is one of the last trials linked to the 1994 genocide, when Hutu fighters massacred members of the Tutsi minority, killing an estimated 800,000 people in about 100 days. people. Hundreds of thousands of people have been victims of sexual abuse.
The indictment says Kabuga funded and armed the Hutu Interahamwe militia, supplying it with weapons as “Rwanda’s richest man”.
He was also directly responsible for the public calls for the massacre of the Tutsi minority by radio and television RTLM.
F. Kabuga denies the accusations and calls the accusations previously presented in court “lies”. He was arrested in Paris in 2020, after nearly 30 years in hiding.
Source: The Delfi
