Félicien Kabuga, accused of financing Rwanda genocide, dies in UN custody
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Félicien Kabuga, a Rwandan businessman accused of financing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, has died while in custody at a UN detention facility. Kabuga faced charges for allegedly funding the RTLM radio station, which broadcast incitement calling on ethnic Hutus to murder and mutilate members of the rival Tutsi ethnic group during the genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 people. French authorities arrested Kabuga in May 2020 after decades as a fugitive, and he was subsequently transferred to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague to face trial for genocide and crimes against humanity.