What happened to Félicien Kabuga, the subject in the second episode of World's Most Wanted? The Netflix documentary series reveals that Kabuga helped finance the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and then sought political asylum in Switzerland. Overall, World's Most Wanted is mostly current with its information, however there's a new development in the Kabuga case that didn't make the final cut.
In World's Most Wanted, 14 interviewees provide on-camera testimonies about Kabuga's disturbing background. Little is revealed about the subject's early years in Rwanda, but the main takeaway is that he imported mass amounts of machetes that were used to systematically slaughter the Tutsi population over the course of 100 days. World's Most Wanted includes footage of violent attacks, and details how Kabuga used Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines to deliver hateful messages about the Tutsis. Kabuga is described as a "soccer star" in World's Most Wanted, and framed as a man who took full advantage of his political connections.
World's Most Wanted documents Kabuga's activity during the '90s. He initially fled to Switzerland, but was then deported and later settled in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa). Interviewees in the Netflix documentary attempt to explain how Kabuga managed to avoid authorities, including the former U.S. Ambassador for War Crimes, Pierre Prosper, who painfully recalls how an informant, William Munuhe, was found dead on the day he was supposed to provide information on Kabuga in 2003. At the time, local investigators couldn't determine a cause of death, however the crime scene shows that Munuhe had clearly been murdered, evidenced by blood spatters on the wall of his home, along with his acid-dissolved corpse. Seventeen years later, Kabuga was captured near Paris, (as shown in World's Most Wanted on Netflix).
On June 3, 2020, a Parisian court ruled that Kabuga would be extradited and handed over to a United Nations tribunal. Lawyers have claimed that a trial will be bad for their 85-year-old client's health, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kabuga may be be transferred to The Hague in the Netherlands, and then be tried in Arusha, Tanzania. On Twitter, there's been a push to have the criminal tried in his native country, Rwanda.
In July 2020, the surviving family of the aforementioned Munuhe announced (via The Nation) that they'll be seeking financial compensation, citing "a series of misfortunes." The Netflix documentary implies that authorities were tipped off about Munuhe's plans to meet with FBI agents, which presumably made him a prime target for Kabuga. Overall, World's Most Wanted presents its Rwandan subject as a wealthy and media-savvy man with s in high places. However, director Thomas Zribi doesn't fully explore Kabuga's motivations, aside from the fact that he's an advocate of what's known as "Hutu Power."