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After 26 years on the run, tycoon on trial over genocide

A Rwandan tycoon who was in hiding for more than 20 years has gone on trial in the Hague, accused of helping to fund and direct the 100-day slaughter of 800,000 people. Felicien Kabuga, 87, became one of the world’s most wanted fugitives with a US$5 million (NZ$8.7 million) bounty on his head. After 26 years on the run in Africa and Europe, he was tracked to Paris in 2020 where he was living under a false name and protected by his children. Felicite Lyamukuru from Ibuka – the umbrella association for genocide survivors – said Kabuga was the ‘‘Adolf Eichmann of the 1994 genocide’’. The trial of the wheelchair-bound Kabuga, who has boycotted proceedings, is likely to be one of the last from the atrocity.

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