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Survivors should take part in UN probe

[Liberia] Separated Liberian children arrive at the border from a refugee camp in Guinea to be reunited with their family in February 2005 thanks to an ICRC tracing programme. IRIN
Separated children reunited with their family on the Guinea-Liberia border
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    Rwandan survivors say they should take part in a proposed UN investigation into the 1994 genocide, the Rwanda News Agency reported. Anastase Mulumba, secretary-general of the Ibuka survivors’ association, said they were best placed to recount what happened. In a letter to the Security Council recently, Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed setting up an independent commission of enquiry to probe UN actions during the genocide. Rwandan foreign ministry sources said the government “awaited a positive solution from the UN commission”, RNA added.

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