Rwanda genocide financier held

PARIS, (THE HINDU), MAY 16, 2020 - French police on Saturday arrested one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, describing him as its “financier” and one of the world’s most wanted fugitives.

Felicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda’s richest men, was living under a false identity in the Paris suburbs, the prosecutor’s office and police

He was living under a false identity said in a joint statement. The operation, carried out at dawn, resulted in the arrest of a fugitive “who has been sought by the judicial authorities for 25 years”, the statement said.

Around 800,000 people -Tutsis but also moderate Hutus -- were slaughtered over 100 days by ethnic Hutu extremists during the 1994 genocide.

The statement said Kabuga, aged 84, had been living in Asnieres-sur-seine north of Paris and had been hiding with the complicity of his children.

It described him as “one of the world’s most wanted fugitives”.