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Rwandan refugees hold their hands up and ask for help from Belgian soldiers, who had come to a psychiatric hospital compound outside of Kigali on April 13, 1994. A frail 87-year-old Rwandan, Félicien Kabuga, accused of encouraging and bankrolling the 1994 genocide in his home country goes on trial Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, at a United Nations tribunal, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre that left 800,000 dead. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker) **FILE**

U.N. appeal judges toss plan to set up procedure to hear evidence against Rwandan genocide suspect

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center in the capital Kigali, Rwanda, Friday, April 5, 2019. United Nations judges have on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, declared Felicien Kabuga, an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect, unfit to continue to stand trial because he has dementia and will establish a procedure to continue to hear evidence without the possibility of convicting him. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

U.N. judges declare 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to stand trial because of dementia

By Mike Corder - Associated Press