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Genocide case against widow of ex-Rwandan president remains in the balance

Agathe Habyarimana, the widow of the Rwandan president whose killing sparked the 1994 genocide, speaks to the press in Paris, on 30 April 2014. © AFP - BERTRAND GUAY

A French court has postponed its ruling on whether to dismiss allegations of genocide against Agathe Habyarimana, the widow of Rwanda’s former president, and finally end 18 years of investigation. A decision is now expected on 6 May.

French courts are weighing accusations that Habyarimana was part of the Hutu inner circle that planned and orchestrated the killings of around 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis, in 1994.

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