RWANDAN TYCOON ON TRIAL

RWANDAN tycoon Felicien Kabuga played a crucial role in the 1994 genocide that shocked the world, prosecutors said as he boycotted the opening of his own trial in The Hague this week. The last major suspect from the slaughter, the now-87-year-old set up a hate broadcast that urged ethnic Hutus to kill rival Tutsi “cockroaches” and armed the murderous Interahamwe militia with machetes, a UN tribunal heard. More than a quarter of a century after the 100-day rampage that left over 800 000 people dead. | AFP