Credit: U.S. Department of State /  Genocide fugitive,  Félicien Kabuga, has reportedly been arrested Saturday in Paris. The U.S. had a $5 Million bounty  for the  arrest of Kabuga. 

By Gary Raynaldo       DIPLOMATIC TIMES

French police arrested Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga  Saturday in a Paris suburb. The 84-year-old was one of the most wanted suspects in the Rwandan holocaust. Kabuga  was living under a false identity in a flat in Asnières-Sur-Seine, near the centre of Paris, had been pursued by authorities for 25 years before his detention on Saturday, according to the French justice ministry.  The U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda indicted Kabuga  in 1997 for genocide, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law.   According to the U.S. State Department, Kabuga is alleged to be the main financier and backer of the political and militia groups that committed the Rwandan.  Kabuga was co-founder and chairman of the Fonds de Défense Nationale (FDN).  Through this organization, Kabuga is alleged to have provided funds to the interim Rwandan government for the purposes of executing the 1994 genocide.  The US had offered a reward of $5 million for information leading to Kabuga’s arrest.  According  to news reports, Kabuga is expected to be transferred to The Hague International Court  to stand trial.

As Many as 800,000 People, Mostly of the Tutsi minority, Were Murdered In The  Genocide 

 Human skulls at the Nyamata Genocide Memorial    /    During the Rwandan genocide of 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of murdered as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi minority.