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01x02 - Félicien Kabuga: The Financer of the Genocide in Rwanda

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2020 docuseries, exploring five of the world's most wanted criminals.

01x02 - Félicien Kabuga: The Financer of the Genocide in Rwanda

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[birds twittering]

[chopper whirring]

[indistinct chatter]

[somber tune]

[man 1, in French]

Some people put wood here

to prevent cars from passing.

[indistinct chattering]

[man1, in French] Every time you crossed

the road block, you had to--

you had to show your ID card

to see if you were Hutu or Tutsi.

[somber tune continues]

[man 1, in French] They had machetes.

There were r*fles, clubs.

Many things.

If you were a Hutu, you were free to go.

You could pass and go wherever you wanted.

But if you were a Tutsi

-[in Rwanda-Rundi] Your ID!

-I am not a Tutsi!

[man 1] You were in trouble.

[in Rwanda-Rundi] Did you see your nose?

[in Rwanda-Rundi] She's a Tutsi warrior!

[in Rwanda-Rundi] You want to die?

Bring the papers! k*ll her!

[man 1, in French] They k*lled my mother,

my two older brothers,

my younger brother, and my sister.

[newscaster] Rwanda is a country

that was torn apart by hate

and now lives with a legacy of genocide.

It began when members of the Hutu tribe

began slaughtering members

of the minority Tutsi tribe.

[man 1, in French]

The machetes were bought

by Kabuga. We all know that.

Of course, everyone knows it.

[sinister tune]

[car honking]

[chanting, in Rwanda-Rundi]

[woman crying]

Félicien Kabuga is responsible directly

for the arming of people who k*lled

over 800,000 people.

[in French]

Félicien Kabuga financed the genocide.

Nothing could have been possible

without money.

[click]

[in Rwanda-Rundi] I hope God will help us

to exterminate them,

and to organize ourselves

to exterminate this bad race.

[click]

It's the-- the men

often behind the scenes,

you know, those with--

with clean fingernails,

who may not even need to raise their voice

that-- that do the greatest evil.

He's a business man, a smart man,

he knew who to pay off

who could help him with protection.

[man 2] Félicien Kabuga is among

five to about seven

of the world's most wanted people.

Five million dollars on his head.

[sirens wailing]

[man 3, in French]

Félicien Kabuga is an exceptional figure

both for cruelty and perversity.

That's why I will never forgive myself

for his escape from us.

[opening theme music]

[ominous tune]

[female narrator, in English] Félicien

Kabuga is an international fugitive

wanted for his participation

in the murders

of more than 800,000 Rwandans

during the 1994 genocide.

The FBI searches for the suspected

financial backer of the atrocities.

[gate clicks shut]

[man 4] My name is Pierre Prosper.

I put up a five million dollar reward

to find Félicien Kabuga.

In 2001, I became the US Ambassador

at Large for w*r crimes issues.

And we began

to-- to formulate a plan

to go after these, uh

leaders and organizers

of the Rwandan genocide.

His name just kept coming up

at the very top

of the people wanted.

Before that I was a US prosecutor.

I was in a hard core g*ng unit.

So I was used to seeing death

and destruction.

But I was not prepared for

seeing the consequences of a genocide.

[high-pitched ringing]

[Prosper] When I walked into Rwanda

I was shocked.

I was shocked by the depth

of inhumanity that took place.

This was hand-to-hand combat.

And that individuals

were walking up to their victims,

cutting their Achilles heel

so they couldn't run,

and then chopping them up.

[indistinct chattering, in Rwanda-Rundi]

[Prosper] We realized that

someone had to be behind this operation,

to finance.

We learned that Kabuga very early on

was responsible

for bringing in machetes.

[in Rwanda-Rundi]

Kabuga distributed weapons and ammunition.

The militiamen were also given money,

uniforms

and they also had meetings

and all met directly in Kabuga's office.

I even saw with my own eyes

machetes delivered in a truck

directly in his office in Muhima.

And then, the murders began!

The enemy was the Tutsis.

[Prosper] There were reports

that machetes were being brought in

in the hundreds of thousands.

In our investigation

we were able to learn that Kabuga

was the one who was financing

the importing of these machetes.

There were hundreds of thousand machetes

that were brought in all at once.

We looked at the fact that the machetes

were then distributed to militia.

In order to take the lives

of the Tutsi population.

We could see Kabuga right at the top.

Right after the genocide in 1994,

you can imagine in a Rwanda context,

when you had about one million people

k*lled in one hundred days,

that many of the leaders decided to flee.

And our goal was to go pursue them.

But the perpetrators began to scatter

all over the world.

[man 3, in French]

The hunt for Kabuga starts in Switzerland.

One day, I get a phone call from a member

of the Tutsi community in Switzerland

telling me that Félicien Kabuga

is in Switzerland with his family,

and that he has applied for asylum.

[ominous tune]

[man 5, in French] Back back then,

it was a refugee registration center.

Mr. Kabuga arrived here

with two minibus cars,

with a lot of suitcases.

So, an unusual way

to enter a refugee registration center.

The others usually came

with a small backpack

and they had nothing else.

[in French] He arrives, most likely

by quickly obtaining a visa

for Switzerland,

because he had had one previously,

because he's also a rich man.

[TV opening credits tune ]

[newscaster, in French] Félicien Kabuga

arrived in Switzerland on July 22

even though he was blacklisted by

the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

Until the end of July,

Félicien Kabuga seems to be spending

quiet days in Bern.

He apparently stays in this hotel.

[Pitteloud, in French]

I witnessed what happened in Rwanda,

and it's been haunting me for years.

For me,

it's the burned children that I saw.

I still have nightmares

[scoffs] about them.

I am, I must confess, horrified

horrified, that my country

could offer asylum

to a genocidist.

Given the special functions

that I had back then,

I heard rumors.

I heard rumors that Félicien Kabuga

was about to be deported from Switzerland.

So I called the director

of the Federal Office for Foreigners.

And I remember telling him,

"You can't let this w*r criminal leave."

And then, a couple days later,

I learned that Félicien Kabuga

had boarded a plane in Geneva.

I was overwhelmed with a feeling

of rage and powerlessness.

FÉLICIEN KABUGA DEPORTED

KABUGA CASE: OPEN INVESTIGATION

[sinister tune]

[in French]

He had his bank account here.

It was a well credited account of course,

that of a millionaire.

And he was given time

to completely empty his account.

He left Switzerland with all his money.

He even managed to leave with a ticket

paid for by Switzerland,

with his whole family.

This is unbelievable.

[Pitteloud, in French]

It's a decision of political cowardice

to say, "We are not going

to burden ourselves with a trial

in violation of human rights

in a distant country."

The easiest

is to put this gentleman on a plane.

[thunderclaps]

[suspenseful tune]

[Ceppi, in French] At that moment, for me,

it is incomprehension, it's anger.

For Switzerland,

homeland of human rights,

which hosts the United Nations,

to not anticipate this serious issue,

at least for the sake of prevention,

keep Mr. Kabuga

in Switzerland

in order to clarify the case,

for me it is completely incomprehensible.

Absolutely incomprehensible, still now.

[thunder rumbling]

[Prosper]

We were not ready for the genocide.

And not ready for the aftermath

of the genocide.

Mechanisms need to be put in place

to prevent

movement of these perpetrators.

Those mechanisms were not in place.

So they were able to move about freely.

[cars honking]

[dramatic tune]

[man, in French]

After leaving Switzerland,

Kabuga left for Kinshasa.

Kinshasa is certainly a big city,

but with few international class hotels.

There were just two back then.

So, we thought we had one in two chances

to find the right one.

And we decide to try to find him.

We go to Intercontinental.

And I decided to go for it.

I went to the reception and said,

"We would like to talk

to Mr. Félicien Kabuga."

The receptionist looks in her sheets

and says, "It's this room, I'll call him."

She calls, I introduce myself,

journalist from Swiss Radio.

He accepts, and we go up

to Félicien Kabuga's room.

[elevator dings]

[man speaking indistinctly, in French]

[in French]

to see a doctor or for business.

But beyond that, he didn't know anyone.

[Fontaine, in French]

He was with his family,

so his children and wife

were in the other room.

He was totally calm.

He thought it was unfair

that he was deported

since he followed the procedure

to seek asylum.

[indistinct background conversation]

[Fontaine] He decides to speak

in his own language,

and his daughter translates.

[in Rwanda-Rundi] Did they ask you

questions when you arrived in Geneva?

[replies in Rwanda-Rundi]

[Kabuga's Daughter, in French]

There was no particular question,

the visa was valid.

He entered as he would usually enter.

[Fontaine, in French] Of course, he denied

any direct involvement in the genocide.

He described himself as a businessman

who invested

in different companies in Rwanda,

including the Radio des Mille Collines.

[in Rwanda-Rundi] I was just a shareholder

and I was not the only one.

We invested in a simple commercial radio.

We just wanted the radio

to be a success and be open to those

who wanted to advertise on it.

[Fontaine, in French]

By then, we already knew

that Radio des Mille Collines

was one of the main instigators

of the genocide.

[click]

[in Rwanda-Rundi] Tutsi-c*ck

want to harm our daily lives!

These people are very bad,

their race is bad.

[click]

[speech on radio, in Rwanda-Rundi]

[man, in French] Kabuga was one

of the founders and a major financier

of Radio television

libre des Mille Collines

established in 1993.

[click]

[in Rwanda-Rundi] Dear audience,

it's RTLM! Kigali's free radio,

which broadcasts on 106.94!

[radio broadcast continues]

[click]

Without the radio,

in my view, the genocide would have never

reached the magnitude

that it actually did.

They would not have been able to mobilize

effectively an entire population

against a particular group.

The radio was

probably the most powerful weapon

in the genocide.

[ominous tune]

[RTLM presenter 1, in Rwanda-Rundi]

Dear audience, it's RTLM!

Kigali's free radio,

which broadcasts on 106.94!

There's no Tutsi as rich as Kabuga!

So stop bragging!

I'm not joking, you'll be exterminated.

Let's organize to eliminate them all

so that our children

and great grandchildren never ever hear

about the thing we call "Tutsis".

[click]

[RTLM presenter 2, in Rwanda-Rundi]

As I often tell you,

Tutsi c*ck eat human flesh

and they are cannibals.

[rewind, click]

[RTLM presenter 2] c*ck resist!

They are annoying

because we k*ll them over and over,

we crush them,

but it's impossible to exterminate them!

[click]

[RTLM presenter 2, in French]

I had, it's true,

a very strong voice against the Tutsis.

We said that they are animals

that can k*ll you.

The little children of the Tutsis

were also enemies.

They will k*ll you once they grow up.

At the time, we thought it was true.

I thought it was true.

We knew

we knew very well

that it was Kabuga who was the big boss.

I saw him all the time

because he came to the radio.

I saw him several times several times.

He was the ideologue.

If he had not been an ideologue,

he couldn't have established this radio

and given the line to follow.

[dramatic tune]

[Bizimana, in French] Félicien Kabuga

was the richest man in Rwanda.

He was a very successful businessman

from the north of the country.

[man 1, in Rwanda-Rundi]

Kabuga was so rich

that when someone

in the neighborhood got rich,

we called him a "Kabuga".

He was comparable to a soccer star.

When he passed,

everyone recognized his car.

He was shining through.

But no one ever saw his face.

[Prosper] So as he built that wealth,

he also built

the political connections

with all these various Hutu leaders.

And began to support

the extremist views

to annihilate and eliminate the Tutsis.

[cars honking]

[suspenseful tune]

[man, in French] The increasingly frantic

hate speech on RTLM

arouses the indignation of the Democrats.

In particular, of the Minister

of Information, Faustin Rucogoza,

who threatens to shut down RTLM.

[Rucogoza, in Rwanda-Rundi]

News that fuels hatred

this news is not acceptable

and does not belong in this country.

[in French] In the office of Rucogoza,

we will see

Félicien Kabuga publicly

for the first time,

since television is there and is able

to film this pathetic discussion.

[in Rwanda-Rundi]

RTLM can not please everyone.

Mister Minister,

RTLM only tells the truth

and only what is really happening.

And it is for this reason

that we founded it,

to enlighten the population.

[Dupaquier, in French] This is the first

and, I believe, last time

that he was publicly seen in a video

as the great organizer

of the group of Hutu extremists.

[Kabuga speaks indistinctly

in the background]

[Dupaquier] So, no one will dare

to come and close RTLM.

In the end,

Rucogoza is the one who will lose

because he will be assassinated

with his wife and kids.

[Rucogoza speaks indistinctly

in the background]

[Dupaquier]

Because he opposed those people.

[melancholic tune]

[radio speaker, in Rwanda-Rundi]

Let's all sing together:

Come to rejoice with me my friends ♪

That Tutsis are exterminated! ♪

Come to rejoice with me my friends ♪

God is right! ♪

[crows cawing]

[Prosper] What we began to do is,

as the tracking team began to build,

was set up several operations

around the world.

We were able to successfully

apprehend people in Cameroon

and then we also learned that

there were people in Kenya.

And featured among them was Kabuga.

And we ultimately learned

that they were receiving some--

some protection at that time.

[racy tune]

[Namu] Kenya was this ground

where some of the business elite,

the political elite, could come and

slip into the shadows, and it was fairly

okay for a lot of genocidaires.

[Prosper] With a lot of effort,

a lot of push,

we were able to make several arrests.

[newscaster, in French] Great success

for the International Criminal Court

for Rwanda.

After the arrest in Kenya, last week,

of seven members

of the former Rwandan regime

[Namu, in English] Kabuga was arrested

in a police station not too far away

from where we are sitting.

[funky tune]

[Namu] When he was arrested

and they were looking into the issue,

a number of people

came out of the woodwork.

Lawyers government agents

who claimed that Kabuga

was the victim of political persecution.

So he was arrested, then released.

The explanation that the police officer

who released him said,

was that, you know,

orders from above, basically.

[tense tune]

Kabuga was connected at the highest level

with the Kenyan government.

So he was always

one step ahead of any operation.

[tense tune continues]

[Ceppi, in French]

Kabuga had the opportunity

to stay in Kenya

because he had a lot of money.

It was, back then,

an extremely corrupted country

where it was possible

to buy visas and to buy silence.

Where you could buy anything

if you have money.

[in English] If you look at the--

the registration documents

[click]

[Namu] if you look

at the visa documents that, uh,

Félicien Kabuga signed on behalf

of his family as well.

Everything's very clear.

It looked like just another guy who's come

and he has an interest

in setting up in Kenya.

And used his name.

And, fairly quickly, he was

also able to establish

an import-export company.

He was able to move freely,

shop in, you know,

some of Kenya's most expensive

shopping districts.

He had houses in, you know, areas that

a regular Kenyan

would not be able to afford to live in.

So, he lived a quiet life,

but it was a comfortable life.

[somber tune]

So, we got to the point where

we launched a very aggressive

campaign in Kenya.

[dramatic tune]

[Prosper] We set up phone numbers,

hot-lines where people could call in

and provide us tips.

And from there we would send out

a-- a-- the tracking team.

When we launched the program,

Kabuga was our featured person.

The idea was really quite simple.

If someone was able to give us information

we could pay up to five million dollars.

Those individuals who have been indicted

for serious violations

of international humanitarian law

that is, those most responsible

and those most wanted

for the Rwandan genocide.

[dramatic tune]

[Prosper] We had a witness

that came forward

and provided information.

He had seen Kabuga.

And had actually had conversations

with Kabuga.

We needed to test the information.

So we had, uh, the FBI perform

polygraph, lie detector tests.

[whirring]

[Prosper] The man passed the test.

The FBI concluded

he was telling the truth.

And so he was willing to help set up

a sting operation

where we were going to arrest Kabuga.

[suspenseful tune]

[Namu] William Munuhe was a journalist

working for a local newspaper here,

who had very good and close

links to government.

So William Munuhe

gets introduced to Félicien Kabuga.

And once he realizes

who Félicien Kabuga is,

he reaches out

to the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

And he starts to hatch a plan

to get Félicien Kabuga arrested.

[Munuhe's brother, in Rwanda-Rundi]

I'm William Munuhe's brother.

He is the last born of the family.

[baby wailing]

[Munuhe's brother] Once, he told us that

he had friends from America.

He said that through his friends,

he could raise

our living standards as a family.

Because in our lives

we've been raised in poverty.

Munuhe was a smart man.

People of the government sometimes

asked him to hide Félicien Kabuga.

And when Kabuga needed someone

to get a job done,

they would ask Munuhe to do it.

[Prosper, in English] But

we do believe that there was a leak

in the Kenyan security system

that, uh, alerted Kabuga's people

of the identity of our informant.

[paper rustling]

[Mureithi in Rwanda-Rundi]

This is the letter. Munuhe narrates how

he was kidnapped on a highway in Nairobi.

[in English] "I was blindfolded

and locked in the car boot.

I found the three men

seated together with Kabuga

and the interrogation started.

He criticized me for betraying him

I was asked

about my relationship with America.

I was taken to another room

where electric shock was used."

[in Rwanda-Rundi]

At that point, he says:

[in English] "They took me back.

They took back my phones."

[in Rwanda-Rundi]

That's how the letter ends.

I think they had an agreement.

Kabuga was supposed to come

to Munuhe's place

to pay him so he would keep quiet.

That's when Munuhe tipped off the FBI.

And the FBI planned

on how they would arrest Kabuga.

[sirens blaring]

[sinister tune]

[in English]

We set up a meeting that was confirmed,

where Kabuga was going to go

to this man's house.

We were all set

and we were waiting and waiting.

And Kabuga never shows up.

[dog barking]

[Prosper] And we can't find our informant.

He's not returning our calls.

Someone went into his house

and found him dead.

[click]

[Namu] The first time news

of William Munuhe's death emerged,

fairly senior police officers at the time

claimed that he had died from suicide.

[Mureithi, in Rwanda-Rundi]

This is my brother's death certificate.

It's written:

[in English] "Cause of death uncertain,

pending full toxicology

due to carbon monoxide levels."

[in English] But the evidence in the house

where his body was found, spoke

a completely different story.

[Mureithi, in Rwanda-Rundi] They struck

his throat with a sharp object.

Blood spurted and splashed

from the ceiling to the closet.

We even found blood in the sink

that they probably used to clean up.

[Namu, in English] It looked

as if William Munuhe had been m*rder*d.

But Kenyan authorities always denied

that

Félicien Kabuga

was involved in his m*rder.

[Prosper] We know

that Kabuga was a k*ller.

Kabuga had no problems

with k*lling in Rwanda.

So k*lling an informant

was very easy for-- for Kabuga.

[sighing] You know

It was one of those days where

you just feel terrible.

And you feel mad

and angry at the same time.

He was about to be arrested. We had him

cornered.

But there was someone in the-- the

Kenyan services that got the information,

gave it to Kabuga, and sold us out.

After William was k*lled,

the information began to dry up.

The tips stopped coming in.

Because people now know

that uh Kabuga is a k*ller.

And is serious.

And that if you bring information,

they are going to come after you.

Then uh he moved on somewhere.

[indistinct in-flight announcement]

[Prosper] And we just could not get

a good grasp of-- of where he went to.

[racy tune]

[Prosper] Maybe he went back to the Congo.

We had information at one point that

he spent some time in the Seychelles.

[Bizimana, in French] It is even said

that he went through a body transformation

in order to hide himself.

That he could have traveled

to countries in Asia,

in Europe, with fake passports.

[racy tune continues]

[Prosper, in English] Kabuga, with his

wealth and his willingness to k*ll,

has been able to remain at large.

[Dupaquier, in French] Kabuga was wanted.

He was the most wanted man,

but a lot of others were wanted, namely

his son-in-law, Ngirabatware, who played

a terrible part during the genocide.

They located him in Germany.

The process was obviously

to alert the German police,

the only ones able

to operate on German soil.

[Rapp, in English] What happened in 2007

is that the effort

to arrest his son-in-law

finally succeeds in Germany.

RWANDAN GENOCIDIST ARRESTED IN FRANKFUR

A FORMER MINISTER ARRESTED

[Rapp] At the time he's arrested,

he's actually at an Internet cafe

and he's communicating

on a rented computer.

Uh--

and he also has with him a thumb drive,

a memory stick that's in that computer,

and when he's arrested,

he pulls out the memory stick and attempts

to stomp on it and destroy it.

[in French] Some German policemen

found the debris from this USB drive and

sent it for expertise.

When they managed to recover

some of the data from this USB drive,

they saw that there was an invoice

for the hospitalization of a Tanzanian.

This document was a piece of paper

with the photo ID of a Tanzanian,

and the photo was clear.

It was indeed Félicien Kabuga,

who had been smuggled into Germany

on a fake passport.

[Rapp, in English]

That then leads them to understand

that Kabuga has been there.

There's no question, you know,

that he was in Germany at that time.

And so there's a lot of efforts to try

to locate him in Germany,

and elsewhere in Europe.

Which, frankly, don't yield

any solid, uh, information

about his whereabouts.

[suspenseful tune]

[Dupaquier, in French] Félicien Kabuga

did not wait to be identified.

He disappeared again.

It was a monumental failure.

[Prosper, in English] We continued to try

to find Kabuga.

But it became tougher and tougher

to get real, actionable

information or intelligence

on-- on Kabuga.

[church bells tolling]

[Rapp] He may be, you know, in some

in some villa in France,

being, you know, taken care of by a nurse.

But they're never answering the door.

[church bells tolling]

[Dupaquier, in French]

The genocide organization is,

in some ways, like the mafia.

And you know

that when a mafia member is buried,

all mafia members go to the procession.

I learned one day

that a friend of Félicien Kabuga's

had passed away

and that he was about to be buried

in the Paris region.

Here is Jean Bosco Barayagwiza's grave.

This is where I hoped Félicien Kabuga,

the genocide's financier, would come

since he was a great friend

of Jean Bosco Barayagwiza's.

-Both of them were at RTLM.

-[indistinct background speech]

[click]

[suspenseful tune]

[in French] I was here, not very far,

with a cameraman friend,

to film Kabuga's arrest.

Two policemen hid

in the gatehouse you see here,

at the end of the cemetery,

which is used to store tools.

And they were waiting for my signal

to get closer and arrest Kabuga.

There were employees

of the Public Gardening Services,

who were pretending to plant flowers.

There were two trucks

and it was planned that,

if Kabuga was spotted,

to prevent him from escaping

at my signal, one truck

would block the street

and another would block a little

further up. He had no way to escape.

The procession of Rwandans

approach the grave here,

and when the procession is leaving

I'm still waiting for Kabuga's arrival,

because I saw that

he was not in the procession.

I see that there is Dr. Eugene Rwamucyo,

who is wanted

by an international arrest warrant,

who is there and I say to myself:

"At least, let's arrest that one."

[in French] You are coming with us.

-[in French] Now?

-Give me your hands, please.

[Dupaquier, in French] That's how I failed

to arrest Félicien Kabuga

but managed to arrest Dr. Eugene Rwamucyo.

-[in French] Call my lawyer, Mr. Boulain.

-[in French] Let's go, sir.

[indistinct dialog in French]

[in French] What's going on?

[in French] It's too tight, please.

-[in French] Move, sir.

-[in French] Thank you.

[click]

[click]

[ominous tune]

[in French] Those who have been arrested

and put in jail are the little people.

Kabuga and the authorities

who planned the genocide

Many have never been arrested.

They are hiding.

[in French]

I'm pretty sure that Kabuga is in Kenya.

[in English] The last I heard,

he had popped up somewhere in Belgium.

How he had been able

to make it to Europe, I'm not sure.

[Ceppi, in French]

Just like the victims of the Holocaust

have never given up,

have never stopped hunting down

the perpetrators of the Holocaust,

I think we must never stop hunting down

people like Félicien Kabuga.

[Prosper, in English] I would have loved

to have gotten, uh Kabuga.

But I have found that time

catches up with-- with everyone.

And we will

find out where Kabuga is, dead or alive,

at some point in time.

[footsteps]

[somber music]

[traffic humming]

[man, in French] In the beginning of 2020,

we received information from the English

that one of his daughters was in the area.

She often came to the country,

and notably to Asnières.

[Emeraux, in French] The other members

of the family, who were being tapped,

also came to Asnières.

[man on phone, in English] Yep, well,

I hope this isn't a recorded line.

All right.

[in French] We thought there was something

special about this city.

[Emeraux, in French]

We decided to speed things up.

[dramatic music]

A meeting was set for Saturday at 6 a.m.

And when we arrived outside the apartment

we went through the basement

to go up the stairs discreetly, of course.

Once we were in front

of the apartment door,

everyone got into position.

And it was time.

[somber music]

[in English] After decades on the run,

one of the world's most wanted

fugitives has been captured.

Félicien Kabuga is finally

in custody this evening,

after French police raided a flat in Paris

in the early hours of this morning.

[in French] The man was living

under a false identity

in Asnières-sur-Seine, near Paris.

The result of a long investigation

by French police.

[Emeraux, in French] He acknowledged

that he was indeed Félicien Kabuga.

I thought it was a historic day

because it was the end of his run.

[male narrator, in English]

His arrest is a reminder

that those responsible for genocide

can be brought to account,

even 26 years after their crimes.

[somber music]

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