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Felicien Kabuga's defense lawyer Emmanuel Altit, left, speaks with prosecutor Rupert Elderkin in court at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague, Thursday, Sept. 29 2022.
UNITED NATIONS judges today declared an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to continue standing trial because he has dementia.
The judges at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals said they would establish a procedure to go on hearing evidence without the possibility of convicting Felicien Kabuga, one of the last fugitives charged in connection with the 1994 genocide.
The 88-year-old, currently in custody at a UN detention unit, is accused of encouraging and bankrolling the mass killing of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority.
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