07/07/2002

EDITORIAL NUMBER=0-09991

INTERNATIONAL CRIME ALERT: FELICIEN KABUGA

In 1994, some eight-hundred thousand Rwandan Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Hutu extremists. In response, the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Its job is to prosecute and punish the organizers of the genocide in Rwanda. Among the fugitives sought is Felicien Kabuga.

Kabuga's privately owned "Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines" [Thousand Hills Independent Radio and Television] called for the mass murder of Tutsis and others. He is charged with supplying machetes, hoes, and other tools used as weapons by Hutu mobs. He is alleged to have been the main financial backer of the Hutu extremist militias who carried out the massacres along with the Rwandan government and military.

An ethnic Hutu, Felicien Kabuga was born in Rwanda in 1935. He is a wealthy businessman. He has used the names Faracean Kabuga, Idriss Sudi, Abachev Straton, Anathase Munyaruga, and Oliver Rukundakuvuga. He is believed to frequent Europe and African countries such as Madagascar, Gabon, and Kenya. He may be in Nairobi, Mombasa, or Eldoret, Kenya.