
Survivor reacts to arrest of key figure in Rwandan genocide
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A man suspected of being the main financier of the militia groups that carried out the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been arrested in France. Felicien Kabuga was detained in a Paris suburb, where he'd been living under a false identity. Theodora Umurorwa was left for dead in the violence but survived and describes the role Kabuga played.
Also in the programme: Iran sentences a French-Iranian academic to six years in prison on national security charges; and a view on the challenges of the Coronavirus pandemic from the Central African Republic.
Picture: Photo released by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) of Felicien Kabuga. Credit: Mecanisme pour les Tribunaux pen/AFP via Getty Images.
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