[s1e2] Fг©licien Kabuga: The Financer Of The - Gen...

While radio is usually a tool for information, Kabuga’s station turned it into a weapon of mass psychological warfare. RTLM didn’t just spread "fake news"; it dehumanized the Tutsi population, calling them "cockroaches" and literally broadcasting the names and locations of people to be murdered. He took the intimacy of radio and used it to turn neighbors into executioners. The Business of Death

Kabuga’s eventual capture served as a stark reminder that the "wheels of justice turn slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine." Although his trial in The Hague was eventually halted in 2023 due to his advancing dementia, his arrest shattered the myth of his untouchability. [S1E2] FГ©licien Kabuga: The Financer of the Gen...

In the early 1990s, Kabuga’s influence was inescapable. He was a successful businessman with deep ties to the ruling Habyarimana elite, but his most lethal investment was in the machinery of propaganda. He was a founding father and main financier of . While radio is usually a tool for information,

The story of Félicien Kabuga is a chilling study of how immense wealth can be weaponized to dismantle a nation. Once one of Rwanda's richest men, Kabuga didn’t just fund a genocide; he industrialized it. The Architect of Hate The Business of Death Kabuga’s eventual capture served

After the 1994 genocide, Kabuga became one of the world’s most elusive fugitives. For 26 years, he vanished into a shadow world of aliases and high-level protection, traversing Africa and Europe with a $5 million bounty on his head.

His story took a cinematic turn in May 2020. At age 87, the "Financier of Genocide" was finally cornered not in a jungle or a war zone, but in a quiet, nondescript apartment in , a suburb of Paris. He had been living under a false identity, shielded by his children and the anonymity of urban life. A Legacy of Accountability