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Rwanda to release 8,000 more genocide prisoners

Rwanda will release another 8,000 prisoners convicted or awaiting trial over the central African nation’s 1994 genocide, a chief prosecutor said, raising fears among survivors of a fresh round of bloodletting. The release adds to tens of thousands already freed in recent years as part of an effort to empty Rwanda’s over-flowing prisons and promote reconciliation. Full Story