Genocide suspect unfit

United Nations judges have declared an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to continue to stand trial because he has dementia and say they will establish a procedure to continue to hear evidence without the possibility of convicting him. The majority decision published yesterday by judges at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals means that no guilty verdict can be reached in the trial of Felicien Kabuga, 88, one of the last fugitives charged over the 1994 genocide. Medical experts say that ‘‘he will not recover these capacities because his condition is characterised by progressive and irreversible decline’’.