{"id":109522,"date":"2022-11-29T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T09:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/?p=109522"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:08:48","slug":"felicien-kabuga-the-last-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/109522-felicien-kabuga-the-last-judgment.html","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e9licien Kabuga, the last judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>F\u00e9licien Kabuga played the last of the great roles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/40846-rwanda-the-most-judged-genocide-in-history.html\">most litigated genocide in history<\/a>: after having been the last of the great fugitives for a long time, he came to close the proceedings of the UN tribunal in charge of trying those responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis of Rwanda, perpetrated in 1994. The man who at one time had the reputation of being the richest man in Rwanda was already very old and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/92210-kabuga-still-no-trial-two-years-after-his-arrest.html\">ill<\/a>. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/107335-waiting-for-witnesses-kabuga-trial.html\">trial opened in The Hague<\/a> on 29 September 2022, and proceeded at a fatally slow pace, out of sight, towards an outcome that seemed increasingly uncertain. The former businessman was accused of having financed the Interahamwe militia as well as Radio-T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), a private station that called for murder during the massacres. He was charged with genocide, incitement to commit genocide and crimes against humanity. In the end, he would never be tried, the Appeals chamber having concluded in August 2023 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/120523-final-curtain-falls-on-kabuga-trial.html\">his state of health no longer permitted it<\/a>, despite the attempts of the prosecutor and trial judges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/117722-kabuga-palliative-trial.html\">to hold the trial at all costs<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_Felicien-Kabuga_dossier-special_@JusticeInfo.jpg\" alt=\"F\u00e9licien Kabuga, dans un fauteuil roulant, semble fuir un \u00e9norme poste de radio rouge sang, de marque &quot;RTLM&quot;, cal\u00e9 sur la station &quot;1994&quot;. Ce poste est enfonc\u00e9 dans le sol et cr\u00e9e une fissure qui s'\u00e9tend jusqu'\u00e0 Kabuga. Des cr\u00e2nes remplissent un trou au plus profond de cette fissure et des billets de banque volent un peu partout.\" class=\"wp-image-109507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_Felicien-Kabuga_dossier-special_@JusticeInfo.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_Felicien-Kabuga_dossier-special_@JusticeInfo-540x360.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_Felicien-Kabuga_dossier-special_@JusticeInfo-730x487.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_Felicien-Kabuga_dossier-special_@JusticeInfo-1110x740.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Illustration : \u00a9 Elza Montlahuc for JusticeInfo.net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F\u00e9licien Kabuga played the last of the great roles in the most litigated genocide in history: after having been the last of the great fugitives for a long time, he came to close the proceedings of the UN tribunal in charge of trying those responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis of Rwanda, perpetrated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":109508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[2653,3055,2635],"ji_location":[2431],"class_list":["post-109522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ictr","tag-crime-against-humanity","tag-felicien-kabuga-en","tag-genocide-2","ji_location-rwanda"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>F\u00e9licien Kabuga, the last judgment - JusticeInfo.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Special focus on the trial of F\u00e9licien Kabuga. 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