A significant importer of machetes was the multimillionaire Félicien Kabuga, a genocide suspect who remains at large, one of the most wanted fugitives in the world with a US$5 million reward on his head from the US Rewards for Justice Program. Kabuga also paid large sums to establish the hate radio RTLM. His indictment at the ICTR described a ‘strategy devised by fellow extremists, [which] included several components, carefully worked out by the various prominent figures who shared the Hutu Power ideology’. Kabuga had a ‘catalytic role in the political violence’.
