[s1e2] Fг©licien Kabuga: The Financer Of The Gen... May 2026

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

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 . [S1E2] FГ©licien Kabuga: The Financer of the Gen...

Beyond the airwaves, Kabuga used his logistics empire to arm the Interahamwe militias. Investigations revealed that his companies imported hundreds of thousands of cheap machetes from China—far more than were needed for Rwanda’s agricultural sector. In a country where bullets were expensive, Kabuga provided the tools for a manual, face-to-face slaughter, ensuring that the genocide was both low-tech and terrifyingly efficient. The Ghost of the Pyrenees His story took a cinematic turn in May 2020

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 A Legacy of Accountability In the early 1990s,

Félicien Kabuga stands as a haunting example of the "banality of evil" mixed with the power of capital. He proved that you don’t need to hold a gun to be a mass murderer; you only need a radio frequency, a shipment of blades, and a total absence of conscience.