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UN inquiry team meets officials, visits genocide sites

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    The independent inquiry commission examining the UN's role and actions in Rwanda before and after the 1994 genocide met with government officials, NGOs and heads of UN agencies on Wednesday and Thursday after their arrival in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. It also held meetings on Thursday with a number of ministers and visited the genocide sites at the Ecole Technique Officielle (ETO) and Nyamata, humanitarian sources in Rwanda told IRIN. The inquiry team, scheduled to leave Rwanda on Friday, comprises former Swedish prime minister Ingvar Carlsson, former Republic
    of Korea foreign minister Professor Han Sung-Joo and Lt-Gen Rufus M Kupolati of Nigeria.

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