The OAU began an investigation yesterday into the causes of the 1994 genocide, Reuters reported. “The question that still haunts us is how Africa and the world community stood helplessly while children, women and men [were] butchered to death by their fellow citizens,” OAU Secretary-General Salim Ahmed Salim told the panel’s first meeting in Addis Ababa. The year-long investigation, set up under the OAU’s conflict prevention body, is chaired by former Botswana president Ketumile Masire.
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