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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

KENYA-RWANDA: Genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga on the run

NAIROBI, 28 January 2003 (IRIN) - Kenyan police are still hunting for Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, spokesman Kingori Mwangi told IRIN on Tuesday.

"The Kenya police, the FBI and the [International Criminal] Tribunal [for Rwanda ICTR] officials are all looking for him," he added.

An attempt to arrest Kabuga, suspected of having been one of the prime movers in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, failed last week when he did not turn up at a house in Karen, Nairobi, where the police and FBI agents had laid an ambush. A Kenyan businessman, William Munuhe, who was to have lured Kabuga to the house for a fake business deal, was found dead there on 17 January.

Police said Munuhe, 27, was killed a day before the failed attempt to seize Kabuga. A post-mortem examination performed on 23 January failed to determine the cause of death, the Daily Nation reported. The Nairobi newspaper reported that the police had submitted samples to the government chemist in the hope that the mystery surrounding Munuhe's death could be solved. The chemist's report is not yet out.

Kenyan Internal Security Minister Chris Murungaru told another Nairobi newspaper on 26 January that police were following important leads. "We are trying everything we can. There are some key leads which are being pieced together, but he has become elusive," he was quoted as saying by the East African Standard.

The US and the ICTR want Kabuga, a Rwandan businessman, for his alleged role in the Rwandan genocide. He is accused of helping to finance ethnic Hutu militiamen responsible for most of the killings of about 800,000 people.

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 who are at large.

Themes: (IRIN) Human Rights

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