World's Most Wanted (2020) s01e02 Episode Script
Félicien Kabuga: The Financer of the Genocide in Rwanda
[birds twittering]
[chopper whirring]
[indistinct chatter]
[somber tune]
[man 1, in French]
Some people put wood here
to prevent cars from passing.
[indistinct chattering]
[man1, in French] Every time you crossed
the road block, you had to--
you had to show your ID card
to see if you were Hutu or Tutsi.
[somber tune continues]
[man 1, in French] They had machetes.
There were rifles, clubs.
Many things.
If you were a Hutu, you were free to go.
You could pass and go wherever you wanted.
But if you were a Tutsi
-[in Rwanda-Rundi] Your ID!
-I am not a Tutsi!
[man 1] You were in trouble.
[in Rwanda-Rundi] Did you see your nose?
[in Rwanda-Rundi] She's a Tutsi warrior!
[in Rwanda-Rundi] You want to die?
Bring the papers! Kill her!
[man 1, in French] They killed my mother,
my two older brothers,
my younger brother, and my sister.
[newscaster] Rwanda is a country
that was torn apart by hate
and now lives with a legacy of genocide.
It began when members of the Hutu tribe
began slaughtering members
of the minority Tutsi tribe.
[man 1, in French]
The machetes were bought
by Kabuga. We all know that.
Of course, everyone knows it.
[sinister tune]
[car honking]
[chanting, in Rwanda-Rundi]
[woman crying]
Félicien Kabuga is responsible directly
for the arming of people who killed
over 800,000 people.
[in French]
Félicien Kabuga financed the genocide.
Nothing could have been possible
without money.
[click]
[in Rwanda-Rundi] I hope God will help us
to exterminate them,
and to organize ourselves
to exterminate this bad race.
[click]
It's the-- the men
often behind the scenes,
you know, those with--
with clean fingernails,
who may not even need to raise their voice
that-- that do the greatest evil.
He's a business man, a smart man,
he knew who to pay off
who could help him with protection.
[man 2] Félicien Kabuga is among
five to about seven
of the world's most wanted people.
Five million dollars on his head.
[sirens wailing]
[man 3, in French]
Félicien Kabuga is an exceptional figure
both for cruelty and perversity.
That's why I will never forgive myself
for his escape from us.
[opening theme music]
[ominous tune]
[female narrator, in English] Félicien
Kabuga is an international fugitive
wanted for his participation
in the murders
of more than 800,000 Rwandans
during the 1994 genocide.
The FBI searches for the suspected
financial backer of the atrocities.
[gate clicks shut]
[man 4] My name is Pierre Prosper.
I put up a five million dollar reward
to find Félicien Kabuga.
In 2001, I became the US Ambassador
at Large for war crimes issues.
And we began
to-- to formulate a plan
to go after these, uh
leaders and organizers
of the Rwandan genocide.
His name just kept coming up
at the very top
of the people wanted.
Before that I was a US prosecutor.
I was in a hard core gang unit.
So I was used to seeing death
and destruction.
But I was not prepared for
seeing the consequences of a genocide.
[high-pitched ringing]
[Prosper] When I walked into Rwanda
I was shocked.
I was shocked by the depth
of inhumanity that took place.
This was hand-to-hand combat.
And that individuals
were walking up to their victims,
cutting their Achilles heel
so they couldn't run,
and then chopping them up.
[indistinct chattering, in Rwanda-Rundi]
[Prosper] We realized that
someone had to be behind this operation,
to finance.
We learned that Kabuga very early on
was responsible
for bringing in machetes.
[in Rwanda-Rundi]
Kabuga distributed weapons and ammunition.
The militiamen were also given money,
uniforms
and they also had meetings
and all met directly in Kabuga's office.
I even saw with my own eyes
machetes delivered in a truck
directly in his office in Muhima.
And then, the murders began!
The enemy was the Tutsis.
[Prosper] There were reports
that machetes were being brought in
in the hundreds of thousands.
In our investigation
we were able to learn that Kabuga
was the one who was financing
the importing of these machetes.
There were hundreds of thousand machetes
that were brought in all at once.
We looked at the fact that the machetes
were then distributed to militia.
In order to take the lives
of the Tutsi population.
We could see Kabuga right at the top.
Right after the genocide in 1994,
you can imagine in a Rwanda context,
when you had about one million people
killed in one hundred days,
that many of the leaders decided to flee.
And our goal was to go pursue them.
But the perpetrators began to scatter
all over the world.
[man 3, in French]
The hunt for Kabuga starts in Switzerland.
One day, I get a phone call from a member
of the Tutsi community in Switzerland
telling me that Félicien Kabuga
is in Switzerland with his family,
and that he has applied for asylum.
[ominous tune]
[man 5, in French] Back back then,
it was a refugee registration center.
Mr. Kabuga arrived here
with two minibus cars,
with a lot of suitcases.
So, an unusual way
to enter a refugee registration center.
The others usually came
with a small backpack
and they had nothing else.
[in French] He arrives, most likely
by quickly obtaining a visa
for Switzerland,
because he had had one previously,
because he's also a rich man.
[TV opening credits tune ]
[newscaster, in French] Félicien Kabuga
arrived in Switzerland on July 22
even though he was blacklisted by
the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
Until the end of July,
Félicien Kabuga seems to be spending
quiet days in Bern.
He apparently stays in this hotel.
[Pitteloud, in French]
I witnessed what happened in Rwanda,
and it's been haunting me for years.
For me,
it's the burned children that I saw.
I still have nightmares
[scoffs] about them.
I am, I must confess, horrified
horrified, that my country
could offer asylum
to a genocidist.
Given the special functions
that I had back then,
I heard rumors.
I heard rumors that Félicien Kabuga
was about to be deported from Switzerland.
So I called the director
of the Federal Office for Foreigners.
And I remember telling him,
"You can't let this war criminal leave."
And then, a couple days later,
I learned that Félicien Kabuga
had boarded a plane in Geneva.
I was overwhelmed with a feeling
of rage and powerlessness.
FÉLICIEN KABUGA DEPORTED
KABUGA CASE: OPEN INVESTIGATION
[sinister tune]
[in French]
He had his bank account here.
It was a well credited account of course,
that of a millionaire.
And he was given time
to completely empty his account.
He left Switzerland with all his money.
He even managed to leave with a ticket
paid for by Switzerland,
with his whole family.
This is unbelievable.
[Pitteloud, in French]
It's a decision of political cowardice
to say, "We are not going
to burden ourselves with a trial
in violation of human rights
in a distant country."
The easiest
is to put this gentleman on a plane.
[thunderclaps]
[suspenseful tune]
[Ceppi, in French] At that moment, for me,
it is incomprehension, it's anger.
For Switzerland,
homeland of human rights,
which hosts the United Nations,
to not anticipate this serious issue,
at least for the sake of prevention,
keep Mr. Kabuga
in Switzerland
in order to clarify the case,
for me it is completely incomprehensible.
Absolutely incomprehensible, still now.
[thunder rumbling]
[Prosper]
We were not ready for the genocide.
And not ready for the aftermath
of the genocide.
Mechanisms need to be put in place
to prevent
movement of these perpetrators.
Those mechanisms were not in place.
So they were able to move about freely.
[cars honking]
[dramatic tune]
[man, in French]
After leaving Switzerland,
Kabuga left for Kinshasa.
Kinshasa is certainly a big city,
but with few international class hotels.
There were just two back then.
So, we thought we had one in two chances
to find the right one.
And we decide to try to find him.
We go to Intercontinental.
And I decided to go for it.
I went to the reception and said,
"We would like to talk
to Mr. Félicien Kabuga."
The receptionist looks in her sheets
and says, "It's this room, I'll call him."
She calls, I introduce myself,
journalist from Swiss Radio.
He accepts, and we go up
to Félicien Kabuga's room.
[elevator dings]
[man speaking indistinctly, in French]
[in French]
to see a doctor or for business.
But beyond that, he didn't know anyone.
[Fontaine, in French]
He was with his family,
so his children and wife
were in the other room.
He was totally calm.
He thought it was unfair
that he was deported
since he followed the procedure
to seek asylum.
[indistinct background conversation]
[Fontaine] He decides to speak
in his own language,
and his daughter translates.
[in Rwanda-Rundi] Did they ask you
questions when you arrived in Geneva?
[replies in Rwanda-Rundi]
[Kabuga's Daughter, in French]
There was no particular question,
the visa was valid.
He entered as he would usually enter.
[Fontaine, in French] Of course, he denied
any direct involvement in the genocide.
He described himself as a businessman
who invested
in different companies in Rwanda,
including the Radio des Mille Collines.
[in Rwanda-Rundi] I was just a shareholder
and I was not the only one.
We invested in a simple commercial radio.
We just wanted the radio
to be a success and be open to those
who wanted to advertise on it.
[Fontaine, in French]
By then, we already knew
that Radio des Mille Collines
was one of the main instigators
of the genocide.
[click]
[in Rwanda-Rundi] Tutsi-cockroaches
want to harm our daily lives!
These people are very bad,
their race is bad.
[click]
[speech on radio, in Rwanda-Rundi]
[man, in French] Kabuga was one
of the founders and a major financier
of Radio television
libre des Mille Collines
established in 1993.
[click]
[in Rwanda-Rundi] Dear audience,
it's RTLM! Kigali's free radio,
which broadcasts on 106.94!
[radio broadcast continues]
[click]
Without the radio,
in my view, the genocide would have never
reached the magnitude
that it actually did.
They would not have been able to mobilize
effectively an entire population
against a particular group.
The radio was
probably the most powerful weapon
in the genocide.
[ominous tune]
[RTLM presenter 1, in Rwanda-Rundi]
Dear audience, it's RTLM!
Kigali's free radio,
which broadcasts on 106.94!
There's no Tutsi as rich as Kabuga!
So stop bragging!
I'm not joking, you'll be exterminated.
Let's organize to eliminate them all
so that our children
and great grandchildren never ever hear
about the thing we call "Tutsis".
[click]
[RTLM presenter 2, in Rwanda-Rundi]
As I often tell you,
Tutsi cockroaches eat human flesh
and they are cannibals.
[rewind, click]
[RTLM presenter 2] Cockroaches resist!
They are annoying
because we kill them over and over,
we crush them,
but it's impossible to exterminate them!
[click]
[RTLM presenter 2, in French]
I had, it's true,
a very strong voice against the Tutsis.
We said that they are animals
that can kill you.
The little children of the Tutsis
were also enemies.
They will kill you once they grow up.
At the time, we thought it was true.
I thought it was true.
We knew
we knew very well
that it was Kabuga who was the big boss.
I saw him all the time
because he came to the radio.
I saw him several times several times.
He was the ideologue.
If he had not been an ideologue,
he couldn't have established this radio
and given the line to follow.
[dramatic tune]
[Bizimana, in French] Félicien Kabuga
was the richest man in Rwanda.
He was a very successful businessman
from the north of the country.
[man 1, in Rwanda-Rundi]
Kabuga was so rich
that when someone
in the neighborhood got rich,
we called him a "Kabuga".
He was comparable to a soccer star.
When he passed,
everyone recognized his car.
He was shining through.
But no one ever saw his face.
[Prosper] So as he built that wealth,
he also built
the political connections
with all these various Hutu leaders.
And began to support
the extremist views
to annihilate and eliminate the Tutsis.
[cars honking]
[suspenseful tune]
[man, in French] The increasingly frantic
hate speech on RTLM
arouses the indignation of the Democrats.
In particular, of the Minister
of Information, Faustin Rucogoza,
who threatens to shut down RTLM.
[Rucogoza, in Rwanda-Rundi]
News that fuels hatred
this news is not acceptable
and does not belong in this country.
[in French] In the office of Rucogoza,
we will see
Félicien Kabuga publicly
for the first time,
since television is there and is able
to film this pathetic discussion.
[in Rwanda-Rundi]
RTLM can not please everyone.
Mister Minister,
RTLM only tells the truth
and only what is really happening.
And it is for this reason
that we founded it,
to enlighten the population.
[Dupaquier, in French] This is the first
and, I believe, last time
that he was publicly seen in a video
as the great organizer
of the group of Hutu extremists.
[Kabuga speaks indistinctly
in the background]
[Dupaquier] So, no one will dare
to come and close RTLM.
In the end,
Rucogoza is the one who will lose
because he will be assassinated
with his wife and kids.
[Rucogoza speaks indistinctly
in the background]
[Dupaquier]
Because he opposed those people.
[melancholic tune]
[radio speaker, in Rwanda-Rundi]
Let's all sing together:
Come to rejoice with me my friends ♪
That Tutsis are exterminated! ♪
Come to rejoice with me my friends ♪
God is right! ♪
[crows cawing]
[Prosper] What we began to do is,
as the tracking team began to build,
was set up several operations
around the world.
We were able to successfully
apprehend people in Cameroon
and then we also learned that
there were people in Kenya.
And featured among them was Kabuga.
And we ultimately learned
that they were receiving some--
some protection at that time.
[racy tune]
[Namu] Kenya was this ground
where some of the business elite,
the political elite, could come and
slip into the shadows, and it was fairly
okay for a lot of genocidaires.
[Prosper] With a lot of effort,
a lot of push,
we were able to make several arrests.
[newscaster, in French] Great success
for the International Criminal Court
for Rwanda.
After the arrest in Kenya, last week,
of seven members
of the former Rwandan regime
[Namu, in English] Kabuga was arrested
in a police station not too far away
from where we are sitting.
[funky tune]
[Namu] When he was arrested
and they were looking into the issue,
a number of people
came out of the woodwork.
Lawyers government agents
who claimed that Kabuga
was the victim of political persecution.
So he was arrested, then released.
The explanation that the police officer
who released him said,
was that, you know,
orders from above, basically.
[tense tune]
Kabuga was connected at the highest level
with the Kenyan government.
So he was always
one step ahead of any operation.
[tense tune continues]
[Ceppi, in French]
Kabuga had the opportunity
to stay in Kenya
because he had a lot of money.
It was, back then,
an extremely corrupted country
where it was possible
to buy visas and to buy silence.
Where you could buy anything
if you have money.
[in English] If you look at the--
the registration documents
[click]
[Namu] if you look
at the visa documents that, uh,
Félicien Kabuga signed on behalf
of his family as well.
Everything's very clear.
It looked like just another guy who's come
and he has an interest
in setting up in Kenya.
And used his name.
And, fairly quickly, he was
also able to establish
an import-export company.
He was able to move freely,
shop in, you know,
some of Kenya's most expensive
shopping districts.
He had houses in, you know, areas that
a regular Kenyan
would not be able to afford to live in.
So, he lived a quiet life,
but it was a comfortable life.
[somber tune]
So, we got to the point where
we launched a very aggressive
campaign in Kenya.
[dramatic tune]
[Prosper] We set up phone numbers,
hot-lines where people could call in
and provide us tips.
And from there we would send out
a-- a-- the tracking team.
When we launched the program,
Kabuga was our featured person.
The idea was really quite simple.
If someone was able to give us information
we could pay up to five million dollars.
Those individuals who have been indicted
for serious violations
of international humanitarian law
that is, those most responsible
and those most wanted
for the Rwandan genocide.
[dramatic tune]
[Prosper] We had a witness
that came forward
and provided information.
He had seen Kabuga.
And had actually had conversations
with Kabuga.
We needed to test the information.
So we had, uh, the FBI perform
polygraph, lie detector tests.
[whirring]
[Prosper] The man passed the test.
The FBI concluded
he was telling the truth.
And so he was willing to help set up
a sting operation
where we were going to arrest Kabuga.
[suspenseful tune]
[Namu] William Munuhe was a journalist
working for a local newspaper here,
who had very good and close
links to government.
So William Munuhe
gets introduced to Félicien Kabuga.
And once he realizes
who Félicien Kabuga is,
he reaches out
to the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
And he starts to hatch a plan
to get Félicien Kabuga arrested.
[Munuhe's brother, in Rwanda-Rundi]
I'm William Munuhe's brother.
He is the last born of the family.
[baby wailing]
[Munuhe's brother] Once, he told us that
he had friends from America.
He said that through his friends,
he could raise
our living standards as a family.
Because in our lives
we've been raised in poverty.
Munuhe was a smart man.
People of the government sometimes
asked him to hide Félicien Kabuga.
And when Kabuga needed someone
to get a job done,
they would ask Munuhe to do it.
[Prosper, in English] But
we do believe that there was a leak
in the Kenyan security system
that, uh, alerted Kabuga's people
of the identity of our informant.
[paper rustling]
[Mureithi in Rwanda-Rundi]
This is the letter. Munuhe narrates how
he was kidnapped on a highway in Nairobi.
[in English] "I was blindfolded
and locked in the car boot.
I found the three men
seated together with Kabuga
and the interrogation started.
He criticized me for betraying him
I was asked
about my relationship with America.
I was taken to another room
where electric shock was used."
[in Rwanda-Rundi]
At that point, he says:
[in English] "They took me back.
They took back my phones."
[in Rwanda-Rundi]
That's how the letter ends.
I think they had an agreement.
Kabuga was supposed to come
to Munuhe's place
to pay him so he would keep quiet.
That's when Munuhe tipped off the FBI.
And the FBI planned
on how they would arrest Kabuga.
[sirens blaring]
[sinister tune]
[in English]
We set up a meeting that was confirmed,
where Kabuga was going to go
to this man's house.
We were all set
and we were waiting and waiting.
And Kabuga never shows up.
[dog barking]
[Prosper] And we can't find our informant.
He's not returning our calls.
Someone went into his house
and found him dead.
[click]
[Namu] The first time news
of William Munuhe's death emerged,
fairly senior police officers at the time
claimed that he had died from suicide.
[Mureithi, in Rwanda-Rundi]
This is my brother's death certificate.
It's written:
[in English] "Cause of death uncertain,
pending full toxicology
due to carbon monoxide levels."
[in English] But the evidence in the house
where his body was found, spoke
a completely different story.
[Mureithi, in Rwanda-Rundi] They struck
his throat with a sharp object.
Blood spurted and splashed
from the ceiling to the closet.
We even found blood in the sink
that they probably used to clean up.
[Namu, in English] It looked
as if William Munuhe had been murdered.
But Kenyan authorities always denied
that
Félicien Kabuga
was involved in his murder.
[Prosper] We know
that Kabuga was a killer.
Kabuga had no problems
with killing in Rwanda.
So killing an informant
was very easy for-- for Kabuga.
[sighing] You know
It was one of those days where
you just feel terrible.
And you feel mad
and angry at the same time.
He was about to be arrested. We had him
cornered.
But there was someone in the-- the
Kenyan services that got the information,
gave it to Kabuga, and sold us out.
After William was killed,
the information began to dry up.
The tips stopped coming in.
Because people now know
that uh Kabuga is a killer.
And is serious.
And that if you bring information,
they are going to come after you.
Then uh he moved on somewhere.
[indistinct in-flight announcement]
[Prosper] And we just could not get
a good grasp of-- of where he went to.
[racy tune]
[Prosper] Maybe he went back to the Congo.
We had information at one point that
he spent some time in the Seychelles.
[Bizimana, in French] It is even said
that he went through a body transformation
in order to hide himself.
That he could have traveled
to countries in Asia,
in Europe, with fake passports.
[racy tune continues]
[Prosper, in English] Kabuga, with his
wealth and his willingness to kill,
has been able to remain at large.
[Dupaquier, in French] Kabuga was wanted.
He was the most wanted man,
but a lot of others were wanted, namely
his son-in-law, Ngirabatware, who played
a terrible part during the genocide.
They located him in Germany.
The process was obviously
to alert the German police,
the only ones able
to operate on German soil.
[Rapp, in English] What happened in 2007
is that the effort
to arrest his son-in-law
finally succeeds in Germany.
RWANDAN GENOCIDIST ARRESTED IN FRANKFUR
A FORMER MINISTER ARRESTED
[Rapp] At the time he's arrested,
he's actually at an Internet cafe
and he's communicating
on a rented computer.
Uh--
and he also has with him a thumb drive,
a memory stick that's in that computer,
and when he's arrested,
he pulls out the memory stick and attempts
to stomp on it and destroy it.
[in French] Some German policemen
found the debris from this USB drive and
sent it for expertise.
When they managed to recover
some of the data from this USB drive,
they saw that there was an invoice
for the hospitalization of a Tanzanian.
This document was a piece of paper
with the photo ID of a Tanzanian,
and the photo was clear.
It was indeed Félicien Kabuga,
who had been smuggled into Germany
on a fake passport.
[Rapp, in English]
That then leads them to understand
that Kabuga has been there.
There's no question, you know,
that he was in Germany at that time.
And so there's a lot of efforts to try
to locate him in Germany,
and elsewhere in Europe.
Which, frankly, don't yield
any solid, uh, information
about his whereabouts.
[suspenseful tune]
[Dupaquier, in French] Félicien Kabuga
did not wait to be identified.
He disappeared again.
It was a monumental failure.
[Prosper, in English] We continued to try
to find Kabuga.
But it became tougher and tougher
to get real, actionable
information or intelligence
on-- on Kabuga.
[church bells tolling]
[Rapp] He may be, you know, in some
in some villa in France,
being, you know, taken care of by a nurse.
But they're never answering the door.
[church bells tolling]
[Dupaquier, in French]
The genocide organization is,
in some ways, like the mafia.
And you know
that when a mafia member is buried,
all mafia members go to the procession.
I learned one day
that a friend of Félicien Kabuga's
had passed away
and that he was about to be buried
in the Paris region.
Here is Jean Bosco Barayagwiza's grave.
This is where I hoped Félicien Kabuga,
the genocide's financier, would come
since he was a great friend
of Jean Bosco Barayagwiza's.
-Both of them were at RTLM.
-[indistinct background speech]
[click]
[suspenseful tune]
[in French] I was here, not very far,
with a cameraman friend,
to film Kabuga's arrest.
Two policemen hid
in the gatehouse you see here,
at the end of the cemetery,
which is used to store tools.
And they were waiting for my signal
to get closer and arrest Kabuga.
There were employees
of the Public Gardening Services,
who were pretending to plant flowers.
There were two trucks
and it was planned that,
if Kabuga was spotted,
to prevent him from escaping
at my signal, one truck
would block the street
and another would block a little
further up. He had no way to escape.
The procession of Rwandans
approach the grave here,
and when the procession is leaving
I'm still waiting for Kabuga's arrival,
because I saw that
he was not in the procession.
I see that there is Dr. Eugene Rwamucyo,
who is wanted
by an international arrest warrant,
who is there and I say to myself:
"At least, let's arrest that one."
[in French] You are coming with us.
-[in French] Now?
-Give me your hands, please.
[Dupaquier, in French] That's how I failed
to arrest Félicien Kabuga
but managed to arrest Dr. Eugene Rwamucyo.
-[in French] Call my lawyer, Mr. Boulain.
-[in French] Let's go, sir.
[indistinct dialog in French]
[in French] What's going on?
[in French] It's too tight, please.
-[in French] Move, sir.
-[in French] Thank you.
[click]
[click]
[ominous tune]
[in French] Those who have been arrested
and put in jail are the little people.
Kabuga and the authorities
who planned the genocide
Many have never been arrested.
They are hiding.
[in French]
I'm pretty sure that Kabuga is in Kenya.
[in English] The last I heard,
he had popped up somewhere in Belgium.
How he had been able
to make it to Europe, I'm not sure.
[Ceppi, in French]
Just like the victims of the Holocaust
have never given up,
have never stopped hunting down
the perpetrators of the Holocaust,
I think we must never stop hunting down
people like Félicien Kabuga.
[Prosper, in English] I would have loved
to have gotten, uh Kabuga.
But I have found that time
catches up with-- with everyone.
And we will
find out where Kabuga is, dead or alive,
at some point in time.
[footsteps]
[somber music]
[traffic humming]
[man, in French] In the beginning of 2020,
we received information from the English
that one of his daughters was in the area.
She often came to the country,
and notably to Asnières.
[Emeraux, in French] The other members
of the family, who were being tapped,
also came to Asnières.
[man on phone, in English] Yep, well,
I hope this isn't a recorded line.
All right.
[in French] We thought there was something
special about this city.
[Emeraux, in French]
We decided to speed things up.
[dramatic music]
A meeting was set for Saturday at 6 a.m.
And when we arrived outside the apartment
we went through the basement
to go up the stairs discreetly, of course.
Once we were in front
of the apartment door,
everyone got into position.
And it was time.
[somber music]
[in English] After decades on the run,
one of the world's most wanted
fugitives has been captured.
Félicien Kabuga is finally
in custody this evening,
after French police raided a flat in Paris
in the early hours of this morning.
[in French] The man was living
under a false identity
in Asnières-sur-Seine, near Paris.
The result of a long investigation
by French police.
[Emeraux, in French] He acknowledged
that he was indeed Félicien Kabuga.
I thought it was a historic day
because it was the end of his run.
[male narrator, in English]
His arrest is a reminder
that those responsible for genocide
can be brought to account,
even 26 years after their crimes.
[somber music]
[latch clicks shut]
[chopper whirring]
[indistinct chatter]
[somber tune]
[man 1, in French]
Some people put wood here
to prevent cars from passing.
[indistinct chattering]
[man1, in French] Every time you crossed
the road block, you had to--
you had to show your ID card
to see if you were Hutu or Tutsi.
[somber tune continues]
[man 1, in French] They had machetes.
There were rifles, clubs.
Many things.
If you were a Hutu, you were free to go.
You could pass and go wherever you wanted.
But if you were a Tutsi
-[in Rwanda-Rundi] Your ID!
-I am not a Tutsi!
[man 1] You were in trouble.
[in Rwanda-Rundi] Did you see your nose?
[in Rwanda-Rundi] She's a Tutsi warrior!
[in Rwanda-Rundi] You want to die?
Bring the papers! Kill her!
[man 1, in French] They killed my mother,
my two older brothers,
my younger brother, and my sister.
[newscaster] Rwanda is a country
that was torn apart by hate
and now lives with a legacy of genocide.
It began when members of the Hutu tribe
began slaughtering members
of the minority Tutsi tribe.
[man 1, in French]
The machetes were bought
by Kabuga. We all know that.
Of course, everyone knows it.
[sinister tune]
[car honking]
[chanting, in Rwanda-Rundi]
[woman crying]
Félicien Kabuga is responsible directly
for the arming of people who killed
over 800,000 people.
[in French]
Félicien Kabuga financed the genocide.
Nothing could have been possible
without money.
[click]
[in Rwanda-Rundi] I hope God will help us
to exterminate them,
and to organize ourselves
to exterminate this bad race.
[click]
It's the-- the men
often behind the scenes,
you know, those with--
with clean fingernails,
who may not even need to raise their voice
that-- that do the greatest evil.
He's a business man, a smart man,
he knew who to pay off
who could help him with protection.
[man 2] Félicien Kabuga is among
five to about seven
of the world's most wanted people.
Five million dollars on his head.
[sirens wailing]
[man 3, in French]
Félicien Kabuga is an exceptional figure
both for cruelty and perversity.
That's why I will never forgive myself
for his escape from us.
[opening theme music]
[ominous tune]
[female narrator, in English] Félicien
Kabuga is an international fugitive
wanted for his participation
in the murders
of more than 800,000 Rwandans
during the 1994 genocide.
The FBI searches for the suspected
financial backer of the atrocities.
[gate clicks shut]
[man 4] My name is Pierre Prosper.
I put up a five million dollar reward
to find Félicien Kabuga.
In 2001, I became the US Ambassador
at Large for war crimes issues.
And we began
to-- to formulate a plan
to go after these, uh
leaders and organizers
of the Rwandan genocide.
His name just kept coming up
at the very top
of the people wanted.
Before that I was a US prosecutor.
I was in a hard core gang unit.
So I was used to seeing death
and destruction.
But I was not prepared for
seeing the consequences of a genocide.
[high-pitched ringing]
[Prosper] When I walked into Rwanda
I was shocked.
I was shocked by the depth
of inhumanity that took place.
This was hand-to-hand combat.
And that individuals
were walking up to their victims,
cutting their Achilles heel
so they couldn't run,
and then chopping them up.
[indistinct chattering, in Rwanda-Rundi]
[Prosper] We realized that
someone had to be behind this operation,
to finance.
We learned that Kabuga very early on
was responsible
for bringing in machetes.
[in Rwanda-Rundi]
Kabuga distributed weapons and ammunition.
The militiamen were also given money,
uniforms
and they also had meetings
and all met directly in Kabuga's office.
I even saw with my own eyes
machetes delivered in a truck
directly in his office in Muhima.
And then, the murders began!
The enemy was the Tutsis.
[Prosper] There were reports
that machetes were being brought in
in the hundreds of thousands.
In our investigation
we were able to learn that Kabuga
was the one who was financing
the importing of these machetes.
There were hundreds of thousand machetes
that were brought in all at once.
We looked at the fact that the machetes
were then distributed to militia.
In order to take the lives
of the Tutsi population.
We could see Kabuga right at the top.
Right after the genocide in 1994,
you can imagine in a Rwanda context,
when you had about one million people
killed in one hundred days,
that many of the leaders decided to flee.
And our goal was to go pursue them.
But the perpetrators began to scatter
all over the world.
[man 3, in French]
The hunt for Kabuga starts in Switzerland.
One day, I get a phone call from a member
of the Tutsi community in Switzerland
telling me that Félicien Kabuga
is in Switzerland with his family,
and that he has applied for asylum.
[ominous tune]
[man 5, in French] Back back then,
it was a refugee registration center.
Mr. Kabuga arrived here
with two minibus cars,
with a lot of suitcases.
So, an unusual way
to enter a refugee registration center.
The others usually came
with a small backpack
and they had nothing else.
[in French] He arrives, most likely
by quickly obtaining a visa
for Switzerland,
because he had had one previously,
because he's also a rich man.
[TV opening credits tune ]
[newscaster, in French] Félicien Kabuga
arrived in Switzerland on July 22
even though he was blacklisted by
the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
Until the end of July,
Félicien Kabuga seems to be spending
quiet days in Bern.
He apparently stays in this hotel.
[Pitteloud, in French]
I witnessed what happened in Rwanda,
and it's been haunting me for years.
For me,
it's the burned children that I saw.
I still have nightmares
[scoffs] about them.
I am, I must confess, horrified
horrified, that my country
could offer asylum
to a genocidist.
Given the special functions
that I had back then,
I heard rumors.
I heard rumors that Félicien Kabuga
was about to be deported from Switzerland.
So I called the director
of the Federal Office for Foreigners.
And I remember telling him,
"You can't let this war criminal leave."
And then, a couple days later,
I learned that Félicien Kabuga
had boarded a plane in Geneva.
I was overwhelmed with a feeling
of rage and powerlessness.
FÉLICIEN KABUGA DEPORTED
KABUGA CASE: OPEN INVESTIGATION
[sinister tune]
[in French]
He had his bank account here.
It was a well credited account of course,
that of a millionaire.
And he was given time
to completely empty his account.
He left Switzerland with all his money.
He even managed to leave with a ticket
paid for by Switzerland,
with his whole family.
This is unbelievable.
[Pitteloud, in French]
It's a decision of political cowardice
to say, "We are not going
to burden ourselves with a trial
in violation of human rights
in a distant country."
The easiest
is to put this gentleman on a plane.
[thunderclaps]
[suspenseful tune]
[Ceppi, in French] At that moment, for me,
it is incomprehension, it's anger.
For Switzerland,
homeland of human rights,
which hosts the United Nations,
to not anticipate this serious issue,
at least for the sake of prevention,
keep Mr. Kabuga
in Switzerland
in order to clarify the case,
for me it is completely incomprehensible.
Absolutely incomprehensible, still now.
[thunder rumbling]
[Prosper]
We were not ready for the genocide.
And not ready for the aftermath
of the genocide.
Mechanisms need to be put in place
to prevent
movement of these perpetrators.
Those mechanisms were not in place.
So they were able to move about freely.
[cars honking]
[dramatic tune]
[man, in French]
After leaving Switzerland,
Kabuga left for Kinshasa.
Kinshasa is certainly a big city,
but with few international class hotels.
There were just two back then.
So, we thought we had one in two chances
to find the right one.
And we decide to try to find him.
We go to Intercontinental.
And I decided to go for it.
I went to the reception and said,
"We would like to talk
to Mr. Félicien Kabuga."
The receptionist looks in her sheets
and says, "It's this room, I'll call him."
She calls, I introduce myself,
journalist from Swiss Radio.
He accepts, and we go up
to Félicien Kabuga's room.
[elevator dings]
[man speaking indistinctly, in French]
[in French]
to see a doctor or for business.
But beyond that, he didn't know anyone.
[Fontaine, in French]
He was with his family,
so his children and wife
were in the other room.
He was totally calm.
He thought it was unfair
that he was deported
since he followed the procedure
to seek asylum.
[indistinct background conversation]
[Fontaine] He decides to speak
in his own language,
and his daughter translates.
[in Rwanda-Rundi] Did they ask you
questions when you arrived in Geneva?
[replies in Rwanda-Rundi]
[Kabuga's Daughter, in French]
There was no particular question,
the visa was valid.
He entered as he would usually enter.
[Fontaine, in French] Of course, he denied
any direct involvement in the genocide.
He described himself as a businessman
who invested
in different companies in Rwanda,
including the Radio des Mille Collines.
[in Rwanda-Rundi] I was just a shareholder
and I was not the only one.
We invested in a simple commercial radio.
We just wanted the radio
to be a success and be open to those
who wanted to advertise on it.
[Fontaine, in French]
By then, we already knew
that Radio des Mille Collines
was one of the main instigators
of the genocide.
[click]
[in Rwanda-Rundi] Tutsi-cockroaches
want to harm our daily lives!
These people are very bad,
their race is bad.
[click]
[speech on radio, in Rwanda-Rundi]
[man, in French] Kabuga was one
of the founders and a major financier
of Radio television
libre des Mille Collines
established in 1993.
[click]
[in Rwanda-Rundi] Dear audience,
it's RTLM! Kigali's free radio,
which broadcasts on 106.94!
[radio broadcast continues]
[click]
Without the radio,
in my view, the genocide would have never
reached the magnitude
that it actually did.
They would not have been able to mobilize
effectively an entire population
against a particular group.
The radio was
probably the most powerful weapon
in the genocide.
[ominous tune]
[RTLM presenter 1, in Rwanda-Rundi]
Dear audience, it's RTLM!
Kigali's free radio,
which broadcasts on 106.94!
There's no Tutsi as rich as Kabuga!
So stop bragging!
I'm not joking, you'll be exterminated.
Let's organize to eliminate them all
so that our children
and great grandchildren never ever hear
about the thing we call "Tutsis".
[click]
[RTLM presenter 2, in Rwanda-Rundi]
As I often tell you,
Tutsi cockroaches eat human flesh
and they are cannibals.
[rewind, click]
[RTLM presenter 2] Cockroaches resist!
They are annoying
because we kill them over and over,
we crush them,
but it's impossible to exterminate them!
[click]
[RTLM presenter 2, in French]
I had, it's true,
a very strong voice against the Tutsis.
We said that they are animals
that can kill you.
The little children of the Tutsis
were also enemies.
They will kill you once they grow up.
At the time, we thought it was true.
I thought it was true.
We knew
we knew very well
that it was Kabuga who was the big boss.
I saw him all the time
because he came to the radio.
I saw him several times several times.
He was the ideologue.
If he had not been an ideologue,
he couldn't have established this radio
and given the line to follow.
[dramatic tune]
[Bizimana, in French] Félicien Kabuga
was the richest man in Rwanda.
He was a very successful businessman
from the north of the country.
[man 1, in Rwanda-Rundi]
Kabuga was so rich
that when someone
in the neighborhood got rich,
we called him a "Kabuga".
He was comparable to a soccer star.
When he passed,
everyone recognized his car.
He was shining through.
But no one ever saw his face.
[Prosper] So as he built that wealth,
he also built
the political connections
with all these various Hutu leaders.
And began to support
the extremist views
to annihilate and eliminate the Tutsis.
[cars honking]
[suspenseful tune]
[man, in French] The increasingly frantic
hate speech on RTLM
arouses the indignation of the Democrats.
In particular, of the Minister
of Information, Faustin Rucogoza,
who threatens to shut down RTLM.
[Rucogoza, in Rwanda-Rundi]
News that fuels hatred
this news is not acceptable
and does not belong in this country.
[in French] In the office of Rucogoza,
we will see
Félicien Kabuga publicly
for the first time,
since television is there and is able
to film this pathetic discussion.
[in Rwanda-Rundi]
RTLM can not please everyone.
Mister Minister,
RTLM only tells the truth
and only what is really happening.
And it is for this reason
that we founded it,
to enlighten the population.
[Dupaquier, in French] This is the first
and, I believe, last time
that he was publicly seen in a video
as the great organizer
of the group of Hutu extremists.
[Kabuga speaks indistinctly
in the background]
[Dupaquier] So, no one will dare
to come and close RTLM.
In the end,
Rucogoza is the one who will lose
because he will be assassinated
with his wife and kids.
[Rucogoza speaks indistinctly
in the background]
[Dupaquier]
Because he opposed those people.
[melancholic tune]
[radio speaker, in Rwanda-Rundi]
Let's all sing together:
Come to rejoice with me my friends ♪
That Tutsis are exterminated! ♪
Come to rejoice with me my friends ♪
God is right! ♪
[crows cawing]
[Prosper] What we began to do is,
as the tracking team began to build,
was set up several operations
around the world.
We were able to successfully
apprehend people in Cameroon
and then we also learned that
there were people in Kenya.
And featured among them was Kabuga.
And we ultimately learned
that they were receiving some--
some protection at that time.
[racy tune]
[Namu] Kenya was this ground
where some of the business elite,
the political elite, could come and
slip into the shadows, and it was fairly
okay for a lot of genocidaires.
[Prosper] With a lot of effort,
a lot of push,
we were able to make several arrests.
[newscaster, in French] Great success
for the International Criminal Court
for Rwanda.
After the arrest in Kenya, last week,
of seven members
of the former Rwandan regime
[Namu, in English] Kabuga was arrested
in a police station not too far away
from where we are sitting.
[funky tune]
[Namu] When he was arrested
and they were looking into the issue,
a number of people
came out of the woodwork.
Lawyers government agents
who claimed that Kabuga
was the victim of political persecution.
So he was arrested, then released.
The explanation that the police officer
who released him said,
was that, you know,
orders from above, basically.
[tense tune]
Kabuga was connected at the highest level
with the Kenyan government.
So he was always
one step ahead of any operation.
[tense tune continues]
[Ceppi, in French]
Kabuga had the opportunity
to stay in Kenya
because he had a lot of money.
It was, back then,
an extremely corrupted country
where it was possible
to buy visas and to buy silence.
Where you could buy anything
if you have money.
[in English] If you look at the--
the registration documents
[click]
[Namu] if you look
at the visa documents that, uh,
Félicien Kabuga signed on behalf
of his family as well.
Everything's very clear.
It looked like just another guy who's come
and he has an interest
in setting up in Kenya.
And used his name.
And, fairly quickly, he was
also able to establish
an import-export company.
He was able to move freely,
shop in, you know,
some of Kenya's most expensive
shopping districts.
He had houses in, you know, areas that
a regular Kenyan
would not be able to afford to live in.
So, he lived a quiet life,
but it was a comfortable life.
[somber tune]
So, we got to the point where
we launched a very aggressive
campaign in Kenya.
[dramatic tune]
[Prosper] We set up phone numbers,
hot-lines where people could call in
and provide us tips.
And from there we would send out
a-- a-- the tracking team.
When we launched the program,
Kabuga was our featured person.
The idea was really quite simple.
If someone was able to give us information
we could pay up to five million dollars.
Those individuals who have been indicted
for serious violations
of international humanitarian law
that is, those most responsible
and those most wanted
for the Rwandan genocide.
[dramatic tune]
[Prosper] We had a witness
that came forward
and provided information.
He had seen Kabuga.
And had actually had conversations
with Kabuga.
We needed to test the information.
So we had, uh, the FBI perform
polygraph, lie detector tests.
[whirring]
[Prosper] The man passed the test.
The FBI concluded
he was telling the truth.
And so he was willing to help set up
a sting operation
where we were going to arrest Kabuga.
[suspenseful tune]
[Namu] William Munuhe was a journalist
working for a local newspaper here,
who had very good and close
links to government.
So William Munuhe
gets introduced to Félicien Kabuga.
And once he realizes
who Félicien Kabuga is,
he reaches out
to the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
And he starts to hatch a plan
to get Félicien Kabuga arrested.
[Munuhe's brother, in Rwanda-Rundi]
I'm William Munuhe's brother.
He is the last born of the family.
[baby wailing]
[Munuhe's brother] Once, he told us that
he had friends from America.
He said that through his friends,
he could raise
our living standards as a family.
Because in our lives
we've been raised in poverty.
Munuhe was a smart man.
People of the government sometimes
asked him to hide Félicien Kabuga.
And when Kabuga needed someone
to get a job done,
they would ask Munuhe to do it.
[Prosper, in English] But
we do believe that there was a leak
in the Kenyan security system
that, uh, alerted Kabuga's people
of the identity of our informant.
[paper rustling]
[Mureithi in Rwanda-Rundi]
This is the letter. Munuhe narrates how
he was kidnapped on a highway in Nairobi.
[in English] "I was blindfolded
and locked in the car boot.
I found the three men
seated together with Kabuga
and the interrogation started.
He criticized me for betraying him
I was asked
about my relationship with America.
I was taken to another room
where electric shock was used."
[in Rwanda-Rundi]
At that point, he says:
[in English] "They took me back.
They took back my phones."
[in Rwanda-Rundi]
That's how the letter ends.
I think they had an agreement.
Kabuga was supposed to come
to Munuhe's place
to pay him so he would keep quiet.
That's when Munuhe tipped off the FBI.
And the FBI planned
on how they would arrest Kabuga.
[sirens blaring]
[sinister tune]
[in English]
We set up a meeting that was confirmed,
where Kabuga was going to go
to this man's house.
We were all set
and we were waiting and waiting.
And Kabuga never shows up.
[dog barking]
[Prosper] And we can't find our informant.
He's not returning our calls.
Someone went into his house
and found him dead.
[click]
[Namu] The first time news
of William Munuhe's death emerged,
fairly senior police officers at the time
claimed that he had died from suicide.
[Mureithi, in Rwanda-Rundi]
This is my brother's death certificate.
It's written:
[in English] "Cause of death uncertain,
pending full toxicology
due to carbon monoxide levels."
[in English] But the evidence in the house
where his body was found, spoke
a completely different story.
[Mureithi, in Rwanda-Rundi] They struck
his throat with a sharp object.
Blood spurted and splashed
from the ceiling to the closet.
We even found blood in the sink
that they probably used to clean up.
[Namu, in English] It looked
as if William Munuhe had been murdered.
But Kenyan authorities always denied
that
Félicien Kabuga
was involved in his murder.
[Prosper] We know
that Kabuga was a killer.
Kabuga had no problems
with killing in Rwanda.
So killing an informant
was very easy for-- for Kabuga.
[sighing] You know
It was one of those days where
you just feel terrible.
And you feel mad
and angry at the same time.
He was about to be arrested. We had him
cornered.
But there was someone in the-- the
Kenyan services that got the information,
gave it to Kabuga, and sold us out.
After William was killed,
the information began to dry up.
The tips stopped coming in.
Because people now know
that uh Kabuga is a killer.
And is serious.
And that if you bring information,
they are going to come after you.
Then uh he moved on somewhere.
[indistinct in-flight announcement]
[Prosper] And we just could not get
a good grasp of-- of where he went to.
[racy tune]
[Prosper] Maybe he went back to the Congo.
We had information at one point that
he spent some time in the Seychelles.
[Bizimana, in French] It is even said
that he went through a body transformation
in order to hide himself.
That he could have traveled
to countries in Asia,
in Europe, with fake passports.
[racy tune continues]
[Prosper, in English] Kabuga, with his
wealth and his willingness to kill,
has been able to remain at large.
[Dupaquier, in French] Kabuga was wanted.
He was the most wanted man,
but a lot of others were wanted, namely
his son-in-law, Ngirabatware, who played
a terrible part during the genocide.
They located him in Germany.
The process was obviously
to alert the German police,
the only ones able
to operate on German soil.
[Rapp, in English] What happened in 2007
is that the effort
to arrest his son-in-law
finally succeeds in Germany.
RWANDAN GENOCIDIST ARRESTED IN FRANKFUR
A FORMER MINISTER ARRESTED
[Rapp] At the time he's arrested,
he's actually at an Internet cafe
and he's communicating
on a rented computer.
Uh--
and he also has with him a thumb drive,
a memory stick that's in that computer,
and when he's arrested,
he pulls out the memory stick and attempts
to stomp on it and destroy it.
[in French] Some German policemen
found the debris from this USB drive and
sent it for expertise.
When they managed to recover
some of the data from this USB drive,
they saw that there was an invoice
for the hospitalization of a Tanzanian.
This document was a piece of paper
with the photo ID of a Tanzanian,
and the photo was clear.
It was indeed Félicien Kabuga,
who had been smuggled into Germany
on a fake passport.
[Rapp, in English]
That then leads them to understand
that Kabuga has been there.
There's no question, you know,
that he was in Germany at that time.
And so there's a lot of efforts to try
to locate him in Germany,
and elsewhere in Europe.
Which, frankly, don't yield
any solid, uh, information
about his whereabouts.
[suspenseful tune]
[Dupaquier, in French] Félicien Kabuga
did not wait to be identified.
He disappeared again.
It was a monumental failure.
[Prosper, in English] We continued to try
to find Kabuga.
But it became tougher and tougher
to get real, actionable
information or intelligence
on-- on Kabuga.
[church bells tolling]
[Rapp] He may be, you know, in some
in some villa in France,
being, you know, taken care of by a nurse.
But they're never answering the door.
[church bells tolling]
[Dupaquier, in French]
The genocide organization is,
in some ways, like the mafia.
And you know
that when a mafia member is buried,
all mafia members go to the procession.
I learned one day
that a friend of Félicien Kabuga's
had passed away
and that he was about to be buried
in the Paris region.
Here is Jean Bosco Barayagwiza's grave.
This is where I hoped Félicien Kabuga,
the genocide's financier, would come
since he was a great friend
of Jean Bosco Barayagwiza's.
-Both of them were at RTLM.
-[indistinct background speech]
[click]
[suspenseful tune]
[in French] I was here, not very far,
with a cameraman friend,
to film Kabuga's arrest.
Two policemen hid
in the gatehouse you see here,
at the end of the cemetery,
which is used to store tools.
And they were waiting for my signal
to get closer and arrest Kabuga.
There were employees
of the Public Gardening Services,
who were pretending to plant flowers.
There were two trucks
and it was planned that,
if Kabuga was spotted,
to prevent him from escaping
at my signal, one truck
would block the street
and another would block a little
further up. He had no way to escape.
The procession of Rwandans
approach the grave here,
and when the procession is leaving
I'm still waiting for Kabuga's arrival,
because I saw that
he was not in the procession.
I see that there is Dr. Eugene Rwamucyo,
who is wanted
by an international arrest warrant,
who is there and I say to myself:
"At least, let's arrest that one."
[in French] You are coming with us.
-[in French] Now?
-Give me your hands, please.
[Dupaquier, in French] That's how I failed
to arrest Félicien Kabuga
but managed to arrest Dr. Eugene Rwamucyo.
-[in French] Call my lawyer, Mr. Boulain.
-[in French] Let's go, sir.
[indistinct dialog in French]
[in French] What's going on?
[in French] It's too tight, please.
-[in French] Move, sir.
-[in French] Thank you.
[click]
[click]
[ominous tune]
[in French] Those who have been arrested
and put in jail are the little people.
Kabuga and the authorities
who planned the genocide
Many have never been arrested.
They are hiding.
[in French]
I'm pretty sure that Kabuga is in Kenya.
[in English] The last I heard,
he had popped up somewhere in Belgium.
How he had been able
to make it to Europe, I'm not sure.
[Ceppi, in French]
Just like the victims of the Holocaust
have never given up,
have never stopped hunting down
the perpetrators of the Holocaust,
I think we must never stop hunting down
people like Félicien Kabuga.
[Prosper, in English] I would have loved
to have gotten, uh Kabuga.
But I have found that time
catches up with-- with everyone.
And we will
find out where Kabuga is, dead or alive,
at some point in time.
[footsteps]
[somber music]
[traffic humming]
[man, in French] In the beginning of 2020,
we received information from the English
that one of his daughters was in the area.
She often came to the country,
and notably to Asnières.
[Emeraux, in French] The other members
of the family, who were being tapped,
also came to Asnières.
[man on phone, in English] Yep, well,
I hope this isn't a recorded line.
All right.
[in French] We thought there was something
special about this city.
[Emeraux, in French]
We decided to speed things up.
[dramatic music]
A meeting was set for Saturday at 6 a.m.
And when we arrived outside the apartment
we went through the basement
to go up the stairs discreetly, of course.
Once we were in front
of the apartment door,
everyone got into position.
And it was time.
[somber music]
[in English] After decades on the run,
one of the world's most wanted
fugitives has been captured.
Félicien Kabuga is finally
in custody this evening,
after French police raided a flat in Paris
in the early hours of this morning.
[in French] The man was living
under a false identity
in Asnières-sur-Seine, near Paris.
The result of a long investigation
by French police.
[Emeraux, in French] He acknowledged
that he was indeed Félicien Kabuga.
I thought it was a historic day
because it was the end of his run.
[male narrator, in English]
His arrest is a reminder
that those responsible for genocide
can be brought to account,
even 26 years after their crimes.
[somber music]
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