{"id":41404,"date":"2020-05-19T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/hearing-of-kabuga-s-perpetration-of-genocide-commences-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:58:16","slug":"hearing-of-kabuga-s-perpetration-of-genocide-commences-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/hearing-of-kabuga-s-perpetration-of-genocide-commences-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing of Kabuga\u2019s perpetration of genocide  commences in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defense French lawyer Emmanuel Altit, said his client would appear in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Altit is a longtime lawyer in the profession, defending former President C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s Laurent Gbagbo on charges of war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Gisagara, who lives in France and is currently defending the survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi, told IGIHE that although Kabuga is appearing in court, it is very likely that a decision will not be made immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The court shall notify him of the charges, and the complaint shall be submitted to the judges who shall hear his transfer within eight days.<\/p>\n<p>They will decide whether Kabuga will be sent to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha. While Kabuga appeals to their decision, the complaint will be referred to the court of Cessation.<\/p>\n<p>84-year-old F\u00e9licien Kabuga is considered a major perpetrator of the genocide, where in November 1993, his company Kabuga imported 25 tons of pangas from China, then in March 1994, he bought another 50,000 pangas. They are the weapons used in killing Tutsis during the Genocide.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being accused of being one of the founders of RTLM radio, he was instrumental in sowing hatred before and during the Genocide.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35675 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2020-05-16_at_12.59.45_pm-83d49_1_.jpg\" alt=\"A Paris court on Tuesday will hear for the first time Kabuga F\u00e9licien, who is being prosecuted for his role in the Genocide against the Tutsi.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35676 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gettyimages-154994249-1024x1024-107fc.jpg\" alt=\"The defense French lawyer Emmanuel Altit, said his client would appear in court on Tuesday.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35677 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gettyimages-1213173243-2048x2048-2-b19e6.jpg\" alt=\" Court will decide whether he will be tried in Arusha in Tanzania or extradited to The Hague in the Netherlands\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Paris court on Tuesday will hear for the first time Kabuga F\u00e9licien, who is being prosecuted for his role in the Genocide against the Tutsi. Court will decide whether he will be tried in Arusha in Tanzania or extradited to The Hague in the Netherlands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[204],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-elina-jonas-ruzindaza"],"bylines":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":103}],"contributors":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":103}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41404"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41404"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}