Looking for the most wanted Rwandese – Genocide connection
Posted by African Press International on March 25, 2008
Published by Korir, API africanpress@getmail.no source.kbc.ke
Story by Rose Kamau
ICRT asks Kenyans to assist establish Kabuga’s whereabouts
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has appealed to Kenyans to help in efforts to establish the exact whereabouts and subsequent arrest of the most wanted Rwanda Genocide fugitive, Flicien Kabuga.
Addressing a congregation of senior journalists and editors from Africa who visited the tribunal’s headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania, last week, ICRT spokesman Roland Amoussouga said that the US government has put a US$5m bounty on Kabuga’s head.
He said: “I appeal to any person whether Kenyan or any other person who knows the whereabouts of Kabuga to locate him.”
Kabuga who is on top of the most wanted Genocide fugitives is believed to have fled to Kenya but his whereabouts remain a mystery with the government saying it has no information of his being in the country.
He is charged with financing the 1994 Genocide in which an estimated one million people died.
Amoussouga, also a senior legal advisor top the tribunal, added that the ICTR’s tracking team is yet to get to him but the court is optimistic he will be arrested before it ends its mandate.
The UN court is expected to close shop by the end of this year though there is a lot of unfinished business including many pending cases and the fact that most wanted fugitives are still at large.
The tribunal also renewed its appeal to all UN member states to help track down and arrest Kabuga and other fugitives still at large.
Kabuga was indicted in 1997 by the ICTR for genocide and other crimes against humanity. To date, he remains on the run.
Kabuga is charged with supplying machetes and other weapons that were used during the Genocide.
Some of his Genocide investments included Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (Thousand Hills Independent Radio and Television) that incited masses to kill.
Born in 1935, the fugitive has used various names including Idriss Sudi, Faracean Kabuga, Abachev Straton, Anathase Munyaruga, and Oliver Rukundakuvuga.
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