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20 sentenced for 1993 killings

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    About 20 people were handed sentences ranging from 15 years’ imprisonment to capital punishment from the Ngozi criminal court (northern Burundi) for “involvement in massacres” in northern Burundi after the assassination of the first democratically-elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, in 1993, the private Netpress news agency reported. It said most of the 20 people - who have lodged an appeal against their sentences - originate from the northern Kirundo province.

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