{"id":94664,"date":"2020-10-01T11:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T03:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=94664"},"modified":"2020-10-01T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T03:03:43","slug":"french-court-rules-rwanda-genocide-suspect-will-be-tried-in-un-tribunal-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=94664","title":{"rendered":"French court rules Rwanda genocide suspect will be tried in UN  tribunal in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Court-rules-Rwanda-genocide-suspect-will-be-tried-in-Arusha-court-1073452?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/119\/11948306.295.jpg\" alt=\"F\u00e9licien Kabuga was once one of Rwanda's richest men (EPA)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>F\u00e9licien Kabuga was once one of Rwanda&#8217;s richest men<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, Oct 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; France&#8217;s top civil court has ruled that Rwandan genocide suspect F\u00e9licien Kabuga can be handed over to a United Nations tribunal in Tanzania for trial.<br><br>Kabuga was arrested in May at his home outside Paris after 26 years on the run.<br><br>Once one of Rwanda&#8217;s richest men, Kabuga is accused of financing the 1994 genocide.<br><br>He is alleged to have backed and armed ethnic Hutu militias who slaughtered about 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.<br><br>He set up the notorious Radio T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), a Rwandan broadcaster that actively encouraged people to search out and kill ethnic Tutsis.<br><br>In 1997 he was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), based in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha, on seven counts including genocide and crimes against humanity.<br><br>He denies all the charges, describing the accusations as &#8220;lies&#8221; during a court appearance in May. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F\u00e9licien Kabuga was once one of Rwanda&#8217;s richest men PARIS, Oct 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; France&#8217;s top civil court has ruled that Rwandan genocide suspect F\u00e9licien Kabuga can be handed over to a United Nations tribunal in Tanzania for trial. Kabuga was arrested in May at his home outside Paris after 26 years on the run. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":94666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}