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Felicien Kabuga's tragic history intertwined with Kenya's political, ethnic cleansing

Alleged Rwandan genocide financier Felicien Kabuga at the ICC on November 11, 2020. [Courtesy, UN IRMCT]

A chill ran down my spine. I broke into a cold sweat when his image and name flashed across the television screen. Felicien Kabuga, a frail, 87-year-old man, whose name has come to symbolise murderous hatred that galvanised the 1994 Rwandan genocide, was at last standing trial in The Hague.

Here is a man whose alleged crimes against humanity claimed lives of a combined population equivalent to the population of Lamu, Isiolo, Samburu and Taveta counties.

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