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Félicien Kabuga

Kabuga's money - Photo: bundles of banknotes (Rwandan francs)
Will the UN ever recover Kabuga’s money?
7 November 2024 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Bogged down in its proceedings, will the UN Mechanism, the successor to the Tribunal for Rwanda set up thirty years ago, recover Félicien Kabuga’s money one day? Located in France, Belgium and Rwanda thanks to his son, the assets [...]
UN Residual Mechanism (IRMCT) - Photo: Félicien Kabuga, in a wheelchair, is accompanied by two police officers during his trial, handled by the Mechanism, for his involvement in the Rwandan genocide. Rwanda: the residual debacles of the Residual Mechanism
29 July 2024 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
The UN Mechanism that has performed for 14 years the “residual” functions of the Rwanda and former Yugoslavia tribunals has just been extended to complete its own residual tasks. With regard to Rwanda, it needs to break the deadlo [...]
Félicien Kabuga and justice Kabuga and The Ghost of Justice Yet to Come
12 September 2023 by Lucy J. Gaynor
What lessons can be drawn from the stillborn trial of Félicien Kabuga, after the First Instance Chamber decided, on September 8, that the last major suspect in the Rwandan Tutsi genocide could not be tried because of mental illnes [...]
End of the Kabuga trial - The final curtain has fallen on the trial of Félicien Kabuga. Final curtain falls on Kabuga trial
22 August 2023 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
It's the end of an era: the last major suspect in the 1994 Rwanda genocide will not be tried by international justice. On August 7, the Appeals Chamber of the international Mechanism, which took over from the UN tribunal for Rwand [...]
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Félicien Kabuga
22 June 2023 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Has trying Kabuga become absurd? There were many objections after the decision by the UN Mechanism in charge of trying Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga to continue the trial through an undefined and unprecedented “alternative procedure” although he has be [...]
Kabuga trial - Félicien Kabuga, in a wheelchair, seems to be running away from a radio displaying the date of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis of Rwanda. Banknotes fly around him.
8 June 2023 by Thierry Cruvellier
Kabuga: heading for a palliative trial? According to his judges, Félicien Kabuga can be tried but not convicted. On June 6, a UN tribunal ruled that the Rwandan, aged 88 (or 90, according to him), is no longer fit to stand trial. But instead of suspending the case, the [...]
Transfer of the first UN prison to the Tanzanian State
7 March 2023 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
The life and death of the first UN prison On February 28, the doors of the first ever UN prison closed on 27 years of memories left by former Rwandan dignitaries but also more ordinary people. Félicien Kabuga, who should have been its last resident, is on trial in The Hag [...]
IRMCT security staff in Arusha, Tanzania
16 February 2023 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Kabuga: The lost dream of Arusha’s white elephant The Tanzanian branch of the UN residual "Mechanism" for criminal tribunals has marked ten years of existence in silence and without a trial. That of Félicien Kabuga, which resumes this week, is taking place in The Hague (see box). [...]
Félicien Kabuga, in a wheelchair, seems to be running away from a huge blood-red
29 November 2022 by Justice Info
Félicien Kabuga, the last judgment Félicien 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 tryi [...]
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28 November 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Kabuga: Last major trial of the Rwandan genocide behind closed doors Félicien Kabuga’s arrest was announced as a great success and his trial as an important event. But little has been heard about this trial that started on September 29 – for good reason, because the trial of Kabuga, alleged financi [...]
Emmanuel Altit (Defence lawyer) and Rupert Elderkin (prosecutor) discuss at the opening of the trial of Félicien Kabuga.
4 October 2022 by Molly Quell
Waiting for witnesses at Kabuga’s trial Nearly 30 years after some 800,000 civilians were murdered in an attempt to eradicate the Tutsi ethnic minority in Rwanda, the man accused of funding weapons purchases and backing a radio station that spewed genocidal propaganda i [...]
3 lawyers, in robes, are sitting
26 September 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Kabuga trial to start amid defence conflict The long-awaited trial of Félicien Kabuga, alleged mastermind of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, is due to start on September 29 in The Hague. However, the accused is appearing with a lawyer he has been rejecting for almost two years. [...]
Félicien Kabuga during a (remote) hearing of his trial
16 May 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Kabuga: Still no trial two years after his arrest The trial of Félicien Kabuga, octogenarian alleged mastermind of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, was initially announced for the end of 2021, but it has not begun and no one can say when it might start. The health of the former busines [...]
State Council buildings in Paris, France
15 November 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Should a woman be penalized for having a genocidal husband? In a recent article, a professor of public law analyses a French court decision to deny naturalization to a Rwandan woman because of her marital relationship with a man convicted of genocide. Behind the decision is the saga of an [...]