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French report: 1994 Rwandan president killed by fire from own side
Jan 10, 2012, 19:48 GMT
Paris - The missile which in 1994 brought down the plane of then Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was fired by his own military and not by Tutsi rebels, a French investigation released late Tuesday said.
The killing of Habyarimana, a Hutu, sparked the massacre of at least 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in just 100 days.
The report clears current President Paul Kagame, who, as leader of the Tutsi rebels, has for years been believed to have orchestrated the assassination.
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