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Rwanda to investigate assassination of ex-president
AlertNet ^ | October 11, 2007 | Arthur Asiimwe / Reuters

Posted on 10/12/2007 12:07:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Rwanda has set up an inquiry into the downing of a plane carrying former President Juvenal Habyarimana, an incident widely seen as triggering the country's 1994 genocide, a government minister said on Thursday... The subject caused a diplomatic rift with France last year after a French judge called Rwanda's current president, Paul Kagame, to be charged with the death of his predecessor. Kagame, who was a rebel leader at the time, denies any involvement. That prompted Kigali to sever diplomatic ties with Paris, and led to an ugly spat with Rwanda accusing French troops of encouraging the architects of the genocide. France denies that. Kagame, a Tutsi, has said he believes Habyarimana's plane was downed by extremists from his own Hutu tribe who objected to peace talks between his administration and Kagame's guerrillas.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hutu; rwanda; tutsi
Killed by his own? Wow, sounds like a *brilliant plan*.
1 posted on 10/12/2007 12:07:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: Cincinna; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Clinton administration flashback.


2 posted on 10/12/2007 12:08:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Friday, October 5, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Lots of topics regarding the recent events:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=rwanda


3 posted on 10/12/2007 12:16:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Friday, October 5, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Doesn’t his son play for a major college football team?


4 posted on 10/12/2007 12:28:20 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy

I don’t know. I wonder how he feels when his team gets “slaughtered”? [bad taste alert]


5 posted on 10/12/2007 10:57:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Friday, October 5, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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