Judges at a U.N. war crimes court ruled that elderly Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga is unfit to stand trial but said slimmed-down legal proceedings in his case can continue, in a decision published on Wednesday.
The former businessman and radio station owner was one of the last suspects sought by the tribunal prosecuting crimes committed in the 1994 genocide, when ruling Hutu majority extremists killed more than 800,000 minority Tutsis and Hutu moderates in 100 days.
Kabuga's lawyer said he was "very satisfied" with the chamber's decision. "This is something that we have been asking for a long time," Emmanuel Altit said. Prosecutors had argued staying the trial or halting it altogether would be unfair to the victims and would not take into account that it was Kabuga's own decision to go on the run for 20 years which is largely responsible for the current situation.
"It is simple: when a person is deemed unfit for trial, then the court case should end and that person should go home," he said.
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