Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga dies in custody in The Hague at age 91

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Felicien Kabuga, a Rwandan genocide suspect, died while in custody in The Hague at the age of 91. Kabuga was charged with financing the 1994 genocide and faced trial until being declared unfit to stand prior to his passing.

A Rwandan suspect charged in connection with the 1994 genocide died in a hospital while in custody in The Hague, Netherlands, a UN court said Saturday, three years after the court declared him unfit to continue standing trial. Felicien Kabuga, 91, was accused of encouraging and bankrolling the mass killing of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority. His trial began in 2022, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre that left 800,000 dead. In 2023, the judges declared him unfit to continue standing trial...