A suspected mass grave holding 5,000 victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group has been discovered in Gatsibo district in eastern Rwanda, officials said Wednesday. Officials and survivors said the victims are believed to have been killed on orders of the former Mayor of Murambi Commune, Jean Baptiste Gatete, after they …
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Paris prosecutors have they had asked judges to drop a case accusing senior members of the French armed forces of complicity in a massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The call to drop the 15-year-old case on Monday came after a major report in March over France’s role in the genocide. Survivors of …
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Britain aims to send a first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda in two weeks’ time as part of a policy which the government says is designed to break people-smuggling networks and stem the flow of migrants across the Channel. In April, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government announced plans to send some of the people …
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