Rwanda Genocide Suspect Kabuga Arrested in France After Decades on the Run

Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday.

Readers look at a newspaper in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States on June 12, 2002. George Mulala/Reuters

PARIS/KAMPALA—Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 26 years on the run, the French justice ministry said.

The 84-year-old, who is Rwanda’s most-wanted man and had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, was living under a false identity in a flat in Asnieres-Sur-Seine, according to the ministry.