Rwanda genocide suspect Bizimana dead: UN tribunal

He is believed to have died around August 2000,"based on the conclusive identification of Bizimana's remains in a grave site in Pointe Noire, the Republic of the Congo," the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals said in a statement.

Bizimana had been indicted by the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1998. The announcement by the MICT comes six days after the arrest in Paris of one of the last alleged fugitives from the genocide -- Felicien Kabuga.

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