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Minister tells Annan of findings on Rutana killings

    NAIROBI
    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was this week briefed by Burundi's Minister for Justice Terence Sinunguruza on the results of his government's investigation of the 12 October killings in Rutana, in which two UN workers died and which prompted a radical scaling-down of humanitarian activity in the country. Sinunguruza met Annan in New York and "informed him orally of the results of the government's investigation", UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said on Wednesday. No further details were available, he added. The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Burundi, Kathleen Cravero-Kristofferson, stated earlier this week that a UN investigation had concluded that definitive details about the Rutana attack would probably never emerge.

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