Félicien Kabuga, now in his late 80s, was one of the last suspects sought by the tribunal prosecuting crimes committed during the 1994. He was arrested in France after two decades on the run and pleaded not guilty.

Mr Kabuga's age and health should not come into it, Philibert Gakwenzire of Rwanda genocide survivors’ group Ibuka tells BBC Great Lakes:

Quote Message: This ruling continues to surprise us and it shows a lack of justice – that alone is painful. Judges didn’t take seriously the issue of justice.

Quote Message: Indeed Kabuga is old, and when one gets old they get ill. But in the place where he was hiding [when he was still on the run], he was self-reliant.

Quote Message: And once in court, he started saying he can’t do anything on his own.

Quote Message: [During the Rwandan genocide], there were elderly men older than him but they still killed them."

Mr Gakwenzire says the ruling only sends a message of impunity to other genocide suspects.

Summing up Mr Kabuga’s trial, Mr Gakwenzire used this French saying: "C'est une montagne qui accouche d'une souris". Or, in English, It's like a mountain giving birth to mouse.

Essentially, that there were high hopes for justice, but little to nothing came of it.