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Félicien Kabuga (born 1935) is a Rwandan businessman, accused of bankrolling and participating in the Rwandan Genocide. ==Early life== Kabuga was born in Muniga, in the commune of Mukarange, prefecture of Byumba, Rwanda, roughly 30 kilometres off the Rwanda-Uganda Border. Kabuga amassed his wealth by owning tea farms in northern Rwanda, among other business ventures.〔NTV Kenya: In the Footsteps of Kabuga; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpxy4NxqboQ&feature=relmfu〕 A multimillionaire,〔(How the mighty are falling ), ''The Economist'', 5 July 2007. Accessed online 17 July 2007.〕 he was closely connected to Juvénal Habyarimana's MRND party and the Akazu, an informal group of Hutu extremists from northern Rwanda that strongly contributed to the Rwandan Genocide.〔 Kabuga was also allegedly heavily involved in the founding and bankrolling of RTLM, as well as Kangura magazine.〔〔http://www.trial-ch.org/en/ressources/trial-watch/trial-watch/profils/profile/96/action/show/controller/Profile.html〕 In 1993, at an RTLM fundraising meeting organised by the MRND, Felicien Kabuga allegedly publicly defined the purpose of RTLM as the defence of Hutu Power.〔ICTR Case No. 99-52-T; The Prosecutor against Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, Amended Indictment, pg. 19, 6.4; http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/ICTR/BARAYAGWIZA_ICTR-99-52/Judgment_&_Sentence_ICTR-99-52-T.pdf〕 During the ICTR's so-called "media trial", former RTLM presenter Georges Ruggiu named Kabuga as the "Chairman Director-general" of the station, with duties such as "presiding over RTLM" and "representing RTLM."〔ICTR-99-52-T Prosecution Exhibit P 91B; "A DOCUMENT TITLED RTLM ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE RUGGIUS REPRESENTATION.PDF"〕 From January 1993 to March 1994, a total of 500,000 machetes were imported into Rwanda, statistically one for every three adult Hutus in the country. Kabuga has been named as one of the main importers of these machetes.〔〔Meredith, Martin (2006). ''The State of Africa'', p. 501. Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., London. ISBN 978-0-7432-3222-7.〕 Kabuga is married to Josephine Mukazitoni. Two of their daughters are married to two of Habyarimana's sons.〔〔http://www.the-chronicles.net/index.php/features/685-where-is-rwandas-most-wanted-fugitive-kabuga.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Félicien Kabuga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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