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Felicien Kabuga
Felicien Kabuga is a multi-millionaire Rwandan business man who made his fortune from his interests in tea farms. Kabuga is from the Hutu ethnic group and is believed to have almost entirely bankrolled several Hutu extremist groups, including the Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines and the Akazu, which are accused of carrying out the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In particular, he has been named as the man behind the importation of at least 500,000 machetes into Rwanda, just months before the massacre of nearly one million Tutsi’s and moderate Hutus.
In 1998 the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda indicted Kabuga for crimes including conspiracy to commit genocide, genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, and extermination as a crime against humanity. In the years since the end of the Rwandan war, the 81-year-old has remained a fugitive with several sources claiming he is hiding in Kenya, DR Congo, and even Norway.
