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Rwanda genocide suspect Kabuga should not face trial, UN judges say

This screengrab taken from handout video footage released by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals shows Felicien Kabuga, an alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, at a hearing in The Hague on August 18, 2022 [File: via AFP]

UN appeal judges have ordered the war crimes trial for 90-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga indefinitely suspended because he has dementia, rejecting plans for an alternative slimmed-down procedure.

The decision taken on Monday likely means that Kabuga’s trial, which started last year in The Hague, will not be completed.

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