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Rwanda genocide suspect’s lawyers: Prosecution case is weak

Prosecutors Rashid Salim Rashid, left, and Rupert Elderkin in court at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague, Thursday, Sept. 29 2022. Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of encouraging and bankrolling the country's 1994 genocide, goes on trial at a United Nations tribunal Thursday, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre left 800,000 dead. (Koen van Weel/Pool Photo via AP) Felicien Kabuga's defence lawyer Emmanuel Altit, left, speaks with prosecutor Rupert Elderkin in court at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague, Thursday, Sept. 29 2022. Kabuga, who is accused of encouraging and bankrolling the country's 1994 genocide, goes on trial at a United Nations tribunal Thursday, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre left 800,000 dead. (Koen van Weel/Pool Photo via AP) FILE - Tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees, who have been forced by Tanzanian authorities to return to their country despite fears they will be killed upon their return, stream back towards the Rwandan border on a road in Tanzania, on Dec. 19, 1996. A frail 87-year-old Rwandan, Félicien Kabuga, accused of encouraging and bankrolling the 1994 genocide in his home country goes on trial Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, at a United Nations tribunal, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre that left 800,000 dead. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File) FILE - The skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church are laid out as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Ntarama, April 4, 2014. ,A frail 87-year-old Rwandan, Félicien Kabuga, accused of encouraging and bankrolling the 1994 genocide in his home country goes on trial Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, at a United Nations tribunal, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre that left 800,000 dead.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) FILE - Nyabimana (first name unknown), 26, shows machete wounds at an International Committee of the Red Cross Hospital in Nyanza, some 35 miles southwest of Kigali, Rwanda, on June 4, 1994. A frail 87-year-old Rwandan, Félicien Kabuga, accused of encouraging and bankrolling the 1994 genocide in his home country goes on trial Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, at a United Nations tribunal, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre that left 800,000 dead. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)
Rwanda genocide suspect’s lawyers: Prosecution case is weak