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Article: Spokesman for Rwandan Hutu militias says they won't go to Rwanda to face justice
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- July 24, 2002
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Dateline: KINSHASA, Congo
A spokesman for some of the thousands of Rwandan Hutu militia fighters
sheltering in Congo said Wednesday they were not willing to return
home to Rwanda _ which is exactly what a new Congo peace deal demands.
The foreign fighters, suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, fear charges
could be brought against them and say they doubt Rwandan pledges of
fair treatment.
"We are ready to face justice, but we do not trust the Rwandan justice,
" militia spokesman Christophe Hakizabera told The Associated Press
in the Congo capital, Kinshasa.
Most of the Hutu fighters fled to Congo after the mass slaughter of
a half-million Rwandans, most of them ...