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Former Cyangugu administrator rearrested on genocide charges

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    Former Deputy-Governor of Cyangugu District, Theodore Munyengabe, who was freed two months ago after an earlier genocide conviction, has been rearrested on new genocide charges, Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported on Wednesday. "New charges implicating him in the genocide were found, and he was subsequently rearrested" last Friday, RNA quoted an official from the prosecutor's office in Cyangugu as saying. Munyengabe had been sentenced to death for allegedly playing a key role in the slaughter of people in Kibuye commune in 1994, but he had his conviction quashed and was set free by the Court of Appeal in July.

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