Diplomatic ties with France cut off
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Rwanda broke off diplomatic ties with France in protest of a French judge’s call for President Paul Kagame to stand trial over the killing of a former leader, the event that led to the country’s genocide.
French anti-terrorism Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere has issued arrest warrants for nine associates of Kagame over the 1994 downing of a plane carrying former President Juvenal Habyarimana. Kagame has immunity under French law, but Bruguiere urged the U.N. tribunal on Rwanda’s genocide to try him.
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