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US College Suspends Prof Linked to Genocide

Suspected of role in Rwanda massacre

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 3, 2009 4:07 AM CST

(Newser) – A US college has suspended a visiting professor suspected of participating in the Rwandan genocide, reports the Baltimore Sun. Rwandan prosecutors charge that Leopold Munyakazi, who was teaching French at Goucher College in Maryland, revealed hiding places of ethnic Tutsis to machete-wielding Hutu militias. "... Read full story »

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