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Ex-prefect pleads not guilty to genocide

[Nigeria] Rioting in kano northern nigeria in May 2004 policemen deployed to keep peace patol the street of kano folowing continuing attack on christians by the muslims. George Osodi
Une patrouille de police dans les rues de Kano, une ville au nord du Nigeria
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    The former prefect of Cyangugu prefecture, Emmanuel Bagambiki, has pleaded not guilty to charges of genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania. According to an ICTR press release, he is alleged to have been responsible for killing and causing serious bodily harm to members of the Tutsi population in his prefecture in 1994 "with intent to destroy in whole or in part, an ethnic or racial group".

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