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Alleged senior leader of 1994 Rwandan genocide confirmed dead

Sculls of victims of the Rwandan genocide are seen as part of a display at the Genocide Memorial in Gisozi in Kigali, Rwanda on April 6, 2019. [Reuters]

Protais Mpiranya, one of the last remaining fugitives sought over the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has been confirmed dead and the case against him has been closed, the prosecutor of the successor court to the UN Rwanda tribunal said on Thursday.

An international investigation concluded that Mpiranya died on October 5, 2006, in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.

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