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Central African military chief honours Tutsi genocide victims in Kigali

By , based on The New Times (Rwanda)

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Central African Brigadier-General Elie Kozembrou paid tribute to the victims of the genocide against the Tutsi at the Kigali memorial during a visit by a Central African delegation to Rwanda. The military chief praised the country’s reconstruction and security cooperation between the two states, The New Times reports.

Brigadier-General Elie Kozembrou, deputy chief of staff in charge of logistics for the Central African Armed Forces, paid tribute on Saturday 31 October to the victims of the genocide against the Tutsi at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. He praised Rwanda’s progress and reconstruction after the 1994 genocide, The New Times reports.

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