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Businesswomen deny plan to sell genocide relics

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    A group of Rwandan businesswomen has denied a story appearing in the Tanzanian 'Daily Mail' alleging they were going to sell relics of the 1994 genocide in Dar es Salaam. The Rwanda News Agency (RNA) interviewed a member of the group, Florence Kamili, who expressed dismay over the report. "It's really shocking," she said. "I never talked to any journalist from the 'Daily Mail'." The article had quoted her as saying the group was awaiting clearance from the Rwandan embassy in Dar es Salaam
    to sell items including skulls and bones. "What is apparent, is blatant manipulation by a section of Rwandan fugitives living in Tanzania who might have connections with the 'Daily Mail'," Kamili told RNA. She said her organisation had been harassed by a group of Kinyarwanda speakers at a recent trade fair in Dar es Salaam.

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