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Trial of elderly Rwanda genocide suspect opening at UN court

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)

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 - Rwandan refugees hold their hands up and ask for help from Belgian soldiers, who had come to a psychiatric hospital compound outside of Kigali on April 13, 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/Karsten Thielker, File)

FILE - A young Tutsi refugee gazes upon the Tutsi camp of Nyarushishi, on August 25, 1994, 6 miles southeast of Cyangugu, Rwanda. 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-March Bouju, File)

FILE - Skulls of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge in the church sit in glass cases, kept as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide, in Ntarama, Rwanda, on April 5, 2019. 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 - Thousands of Rwandan refugees wait to get food at the Mugunga camp near Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire, on July 27, 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/Javier Bauluz, File)

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - A Rwandan Hutu refugee walks past bodies of his countrymen at the Munigi refugee camp outside Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire, on July 25, 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/Jockel Finck, File)

Trial of elderly Rwanda genocide suspect opening at UN court