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Prosecutor seeks transfer of Rwanda's Kabuga to UN custody

Prosecutor seeks transfer of Rwanda's Kabuga to UN custody

International war crimes investigators have requested that Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, arrested last weekend, be transferred to United Nations custody for trial, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.

Kabuga, 84, was arrested in Paris suburb on Saturday after a quarter-century on the run.

"We already requested his transfer. It is an arrest warrant and an indictment coming from the UN mechanism," prosecutor Serge Brammertz said in an interview.

Kabuga could be transferred to The Hague before a trial in Arusha, Tanzania, where a UN court is handling cases dating back to the 1994 genocide of an estimated 800,000 people, Brammertz said. 

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