Today, more than 28 years after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the trial of one of its accused masterminds gets underway in The Hague.
First indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 1997, Félicien Kabuga was a chief financier of Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, the media outlet that was integral to the killing. It broadcast specific instructions during the atrocities, even naming persons to be targeted and pointing out areas to attack.
Kabuga is also accused of aiding and abetting the Interahamwe, the militia group that hunted down and slaughtered Tutsi men, women, and children.
He is charged with genocide, incitement to commit genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, and crimes against humanity at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, the successor to the ICTR.
Many perpetrators of the genocide, including former high-level government officials and other key figures behind the massacres, have already been tried.
It took longer to get Kabuga before a court, but at last, today, the victims and their families can start to see justice in action.