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Rwanda genocide survivors criticise UN court’s call to halt suspect’s trial

Rwandan businessman Felicien Kabuga at a trial in August 2022 [File: MICT/AFP; screengrab from handout video footage]

Survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have criticised a call by appeals judges at a United Nations court to indefinitely halt the trial of an alleged financer and supporter of the massacre due to the suspect’s ill health.

The ruling on Monday sends the matter back to the court’s trial chamber with instructions to impose a stay on proceedings, which likely means that Felicien Kabuga, who is nearly 90 and has dementia, will not be prosecuted.

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