Apr. 5th, 2005

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France 'shelters guilty Rwandans'
A Rwandan official has called for legal action against France over its alleged role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
A survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda prays over the bones of genocide victims at a mass grave in Nyamata
Some 800,000 people were killed in the 1994 genocide

Aloys Mutabingwa, a representative at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, said the court had heard enough evidence of France's involvement.

He said some 100 Rwandans wanted by the court or by Rwandan prosecutors were "comfortably living in France".

At least 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis, died in the massacres between April and July 2004.

French were individually and collectively responsible for allowing the massacre to unfold, he said.

The full article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4414619.stm


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