Félicien Kabuga, One Of The Most Wanted Killers In The Rwanda Genocide Arrested In France

The French police has arrested one of the masterminds of the brutal genocide that occurred in Rwanda some 25 years ago.

Félicien Kabuga, 84 succeeded in fleeing international justice by using a pseudonym. He was finally arrested after two and a half decades on the run.

The octogenarian is Rwanda’s most-wanted man with major international collaborations set up in his pursuit. Most of his collaborators have been jailed.

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The United States even has a $5 million (€4.6m) bounty on his head. The United Nations is also elated at the prospects of bringing justice to the victims and their families.

The fugitive was a successful Hutu businessman. He is accused of funding the militias that murdered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus within 100 days.

Ethnic tensions of several decades between Hutus who formed more than 80% of Rwanda and the Tutsis ended in a bloody outcome when the then-president, Juvenal Habyarimana was assassinated.

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His Hutu ethnic group blamed the Tutsis for his death and proceeded to massacre all of them. After the genocide ended, more than 77% of the Tutsi population had been wiped out.

Paul Kagame, then leader of the Tutsi militia group emerged victorious after seizing the capital, Kigali. He was subsequently made deputy of a unity government.

He ascended the presidency in 2000 and has sworn to hunt all the Hutus who planned the killings in the small east African country.

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Felicien Kabuga will be put before a Parisian court which would decide his extradition to the Netherlands where his trial for crimes against humanity will be initiated.

SOURCE: AfricaCelebrities.com