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Article: Rwandan Government Angered by Rights Allegations

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March 14, 1998
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The Rwandan government has expressed deep outrage about Amnesty International's continued campaign aimed at tarnishing the image of the country.

The Rwandan government said that the London-based international human rights watchdog is siding with "genocidal" forces sowing terror in parts of the northwest of the country.

In issuing slanderous and baseless allegations that the Rwandan army has massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians, Amnesty International "is serving the interests of those who decimated up to one million people in 1994," the army spokesman Emmanuel Ndahiro told Rwanda News Agency (RNA) Saturday. Amnesty International released a press statement on Friday in which it accused the ...

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