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ICTR defence team visiting

    NAIROBI

    A team from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) defending genocide suspect, Ferdinand Nahimana, on Friday began a week-long visit to Rwanda in search of evidence, the Hirondelle news agency reported. It noted that the visit went ahead despite Rwanda suspending cooperation with the Tribunal over its decision to free another genocide suspect on technical grounds last November. Nahimana was the head of the extremist Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) which exhorted Hutus to kill Tutsis during the genocide. Rwanda has said that while it would not stop the visit, it would not cooperate with the ICTR team including providing security.

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