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CNDD-FDD angry over Ndadaye sentences

    NAIROBI
    The leader of the rebel CNDD-FDD faction, Jean-Bosco Ndayikengurukiye, has criticised the five death sentences handed down by the Supreme Court in the murder trial of ex-president Melchior Ndadaye, accusing the authorities of seeking to "eliminate five annoying witnesses" to the affair. In a press statement, received by IRIN, he claimed the sentences "only affect those who carried out the killing, while those who planned it...have not been troubled". He said the trial should have been conducted by an international tribunal.

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