Rwanda Genocide Suspect Felicien Kabuga Dies in U.N. Custody

Reuters – Felicien Kabuga, a suspect in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has died in custody, a U.N. court announced on Saturday. He was 93.

Kabuga was arrested in France in 2020 after spending more than two decades on the run before being extradited to The Hague. He was later declared unfit to stand trial due to dementia and was also considered too ill to be sent back to Rwanda.

With no country willing to take him in, Kabuga remained at the U.N. detention centre in The Hague. The court said it had launched an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death.