Félicien Kabuga Dies in Custody

Félicien Kabuga, a Rwandan businessman accused of financing the 1994 Rwandan genocide, died in a hospital in Netherlands — The Hague while in custody. He was over 90 years old and had been suffering from dementia, leading judges to rule him unfit to stand trial in 2023. Félicien Kabuga was one of the last fugitives charged in connection with the genocide, having been arrested near Paris in May 2020 after years of evading capture. He was accused of encouraging and financing the mass killing of Rwanda's Tutsi minority, including through his involvement with Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines and by arming Hutu militias like Interahamwe. The International — International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, which oversees remaining cases from the U.N. tribunals for Rwanda, announced his death and ordered a full inquiry into the circumstances. His death closes one of the final major genocide prosecution cases without a final judicial verdict on the charges against him.