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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

RWANDA: Informer on fugitive genocide suspect killed in Nairobi

NAIROBI, 21 January 2003 (IRIN) - A Kenyan businessman who was helping FBI agents capture genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga was killed a day before a failed attempt to seize the fugitive in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Kenyan police told IRIN on Tuesday.

A Kenyan police spokesman, Kingori Mwangi, said the death of William Mwaura Munuhe, 27, was linked to Kabuga's efforts to evade arrest. Kabuga, a Rwandan businessman, is wanted by the US and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, which claimed the lives of some 800,000 people. He is accused of helping to finance ethnic Hutu militiamen responsible for most of the killings during the genocide.

Mwangi told IRIN that Kenyan police had supplied reinforcements to the FBI security team which had laid an ambush for Kabuga at Munuhe's house in Karen, Nairobi.

The Daily Nation, a Nairobi newspaper, reported on Tuesday that Munuhe was found dead, shot in the head, at his house on 14 January, a day before the planned ambush, which had been made out as a business deal so that FBI agents could arrest Kabuga.

Mwangi said Munuhe's cause of death would be confirmed by postmortem. He dismissed reports that the Kenyan police could have told Munuhe's killers about the planned ambush.

The US has offered a reward of up to US $5 million for information leading to the capture of Kabuga, as part of a scheme to track down a number of the "most wanted" Rwandan genocide suspects still at large.

Themes: (IRIN) Human Rights

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