Post-mortem fails to establish Kabuga informer's cause of death

A post-mortem examination has failed to determine what killed a Kenyan while he was helping US investigators track down Rwandan fugitive Felicien Kabuga, according to a Nairobi newspaper. The Daily Nation reported on 25 January that Kenyan police officers had a day earlier submitted samples to the government chemist in the hope that the latter would be able to unravel the mystery surrounding William Munuhe's death. "The post-mortem examination was done at the City Mortuary on Thursday [23 January] evening and it failed to establish the cause of death," a police source told the Daily Nation. He said an X-ray of the corpse had also failed to determine if there were gunshot wounds or if any bullet was lodged in it. The US and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda want Kabuga, a Rwandan businessman, for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He is accused of helping to finance ethnic Hutu militiamen responsible for most of the killings during the genocide, which claimed about 800,000 lives. The Kenyan police spokesman, Kingori Mwangi, told IRIN on Tuesday that Muhuhe's death was linked to Kabuga's efforts to evade arrest. Munuhe was found dead on 14 January, a day before a planned ambush in which he was to have lured Kabuga into his home in Nairobi's Karen suburb to enable security agents to arrest him. The US has offered a reward of up to US $5 million for information leading to Kabuga's capture, as part of a scheme to track down a number of the "most wanted" Rwandan genocide suspects still at large. Kenyan and FBI agents who found Munuhe's body in his Karen home said it appeared he had been shot in the head, because blood was oozing out of his ear. The Daily Nation reported that there had been a pool of blood under the bed on which Munuhe's body was found lying. "This appears to be a complex death puzzle," the police source said. "We hope the government chemist will examine and analyse the samples we took there and help us know how Munuhe died." The results would be known after a few days, he said.