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Charges against Rwandan officials accused of president's murder dropped

Former Rwanda President Juvenal Habyarimana whose plane is believed to have been downed in a plot to kill him. [Courtesy]

Investigative magistrates in France have dropped charges against nine Rwandan officials investigated over the death of the country’s president in 1998, an event that led to a genocide that killed more than 800,000 people, a judicial source said.

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