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UN appoints head of genocide probe

    NAIROBI

    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday appointed former Swedish prime minister Ingvar Carlsson to head an investigation into the role of the United Nations during the 1994 genocide, a move hailed by Human Rights Watch. "The UN can never right the wrong it did in abandoning the people of Rwanda, but at least it can tell the truth about its failure," HRW said in a press release. "This enquiry should also shed light on the shameful behaviour of individual countries as the massacre unfolded," it added.

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