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...most wanted man in the world. For a decade Rwanda's alleged genocide financier, Félicien Kabuga, has evaded trial for crimes against humanity and genocide. According to an indictment from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Kabuga secured weapons and transport for extremist Hutu militias in 1994, as his RTLM radio station was inciting mass violence. So when the U.S. launched a 2002 campaign to bring the génocidaires to justice, it started with a $5 million reward on Kabuga...
Nobody's collected yet. Kabuga, now in his 70s, is rumored to be alive and prosperous in Kenya: ICTR prosecutors met Kenyan officials last year to discuss reports of his continued presence. And the U.S. has extended its $5 million offer against all the other fugitives who elude the U.N.-backed ICTR. Despite arrests in September in both France and Germany, 15 are still at large...
Pillay discussed many of the issues facing the ICTR, including the designation of sexual violence against women as a war crime, difficulties in locating offenders, witness-protection schemes and dealing with government mismanagement...
Pillay, appointed by President Nelson Mandela as the first black woman on the South African Supreme Court, spoke about the ICTR, which was created by the United Nations in 1994. The tribunal seeks to prosecute those responsible for the genocide and other crimes against humanity committed in Rwanda in 1994. Between 500,000 and 1 million Tutsis were killed, and currently 80,000 suspected criminals sit in Rwanda's prisons, which can only accommodate 50,000 occupants...
Pillay said that the ICTR represents the first time the U.N. has held those who violate human rights individually accountable. "It affords the opportunity to discredit perceptions that an entire ethnic group was responsible for the genocide," she said...