Genocide suspect escapes

last updated 8 January 2015

Nairobi, Kenya

An attempt to lure a top suspect in the 1994 Rwandan genocide to a meeting failed this week when the man who agreed to act as “bait” was found murdered. Kenyan businessman William Munuhe invited the suspect, Felicien Kabuga, to a business meeting where he would have been captured, but Kabuga never showed. A few days later, Munuhe was found shot to death in his bed. Kabuga, thought to be living in Kenya, is seen as one of the masterminds of the genocide, in which tens of thousands of ethnic Hutus, armed with machetes, massacred more than 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis. He is said to have paid for huge shipments of machetes, and he was the co-owner of an extremist radio station that urged Hutus to slaughter their neighbors.