Survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi welcomed a French court's decision to hand over genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga to the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) in Arusha.
Mr Kabuga's lawyers had argued in court on Wednesday that their client would not receive a fair trial in Arusha, adding that the 84-year old man's health is at risk if he is flown to another country during the coronavirus pandemic.
Survivors of the genocide say that trying Mr Kabuga in France--as he had requested--would jeopardise the trial since France's role in his evasion of justice for over two decades is still questionable.
We completely opposed his desire to be tried in France because those who helped him to hide there could still influence the court during his trial," Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu, president of Ibuka, an umbrella organization for genocide survivors, told The EastAfrican.
"The Arusha court has the jurisdiction to try him, but it is limited on determining the very important aspect of compensation to the genocide survivors whose lives he destroyed."
