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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 on 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 because he had dementia and said they would establish a procedure to continue hearing evidence without the possibility of convicting him.
On Saturday, the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals said in a statement that Kabuga died while in hospital in The Hague, and the medical officer of the UN Detention Unit was notified immediately.
An investigation into his death has been ordered to establish the circumstances of how he died, the statement said.

An arrest warrant for Kabuga was issued in 2013, and a US$5 million bounty was announced. He was arrested in 2020 in France, and his trial started in 2022.
Kabuga was charged with genocide, incitement to commit genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, as well as persecution, extermination and murder. He pleaded not guilty. If he had been convicted, he would have faced a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
After the court declared him unfit to stand trial, he remained in detention, pending the resolution of the issue of his provisional release to a state willing to accept him on its territory.
His lawyer had said that he would not return to his home country, Rwanda, which had offered to take him, as he feared he would be mistreated.
The declaration that he was unfit for trial angered many genocide survivors in Rwanda, who felt his crimes deserved the maximum sentence.
The genocide was triggered on April 6, 1994, when a plane carrying president Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down and crashed in the capital, Kigali, killing the leader who, like most Rwandans, was an ethnic Hutu. Kabuga’s daughter married Habyarimana’s son.


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Accused of bankrolling the mass killing of the Tutsis, Kabuga was declared unfit to continue standing trial because he had dementia


Accused of bankrolling the mass killing of the Tutsis, Kabuga was declared unfit to continue standing trial because he had dementia.


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

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Accused of bankrolling the mass killing of the Tutsis, Kabuga was declared unfit to continue standing trial because he had dementia