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Rwandan army officer gets 25 years for genocide

By Standard Digital | 16yrs ago

DAR ES SALAAM, Feb 25

A former Rwandan military officer accused of ordering the killing of up to 50 people was jailed for 25 years on Thursday by a U.N. court trying masterminds of the country's 1994 genocide.

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