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Rwanda Decries Genocide Reference in UN Report

By Betwa SharmaAug 27th 2010 – 5:38PM
Brennan Linsley, AP

Brennan Linsley, AP

UNITED NATIONS (Aug. 27) -- Rwanda has slammed the United Nations for a draft report that suggests Rwandan troops, who entered the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1994 to hunt down perpetrators of genocide in Rwanda, themselves committed massacres that could also be considered genocide. Describing the leaked draft as...

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Released by The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ([http://www.ohchr.org UNOHCHR]), [http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/13session/A-HRC-13-64.pdf The Report of the Mapping Exercise] documents "the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003”.

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