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Rwanda threatens UN over DR Congo 'genocide' report

Rwanda has threatened to withdraw co-operation with the UN if a draft report criticising its army is published.

Kigali said it would reconsider its contributions to UN peacekeeping missions, dismissing claims in the UN report as "insane".

The document accuses Rwanda's Tutsi-led army of killing Hutus in Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1990s - acts it says may amount to genocide.

Extremist Hutus killed an estimated 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda during 1994....
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