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Rwandan tea baron jailed over genocide

afrol News - The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a UN tribunal over his role in the country's 1994 genocide. He is to have assisted slaughtering more than 1,000 Tutsis.

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HRW calls on Burundi to halt deportation of refugees

afrol News - The International Human Rights body, has urged the Burundian government to stop forced deportations of Rwandan asylum seekers under false pretences that their refugee status has been denied.

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The Cross and the Genocide

afrol News - The 1994 Rwandan genocide, killing an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, is made even more incomprehensible by the documented participation of many representatives of Rwandan church societies. How could God fearing nuns, and even a bishop, take part in the most cruel crimes against humanity committed on African soil? Even worse, several church societies allegedly were co-responsible for the growing hatred that led to the genocide. It remains an enormous contradiction to the Christian Message of Love.

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