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He is tried jointly with other two former senior party leaders, President Mathieu Ngirumpatse and his Vice-President Edouard Karemera with crimes allegedly committed by members of their party. Karemera has already completed his defence.\n<\/p>\n<p >\n<p >\nFK\/ER\/GF\n<\/p>\n<p >\n<p>\n&copy; Hirondelle News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arusha, May 26, 2010 (FH) -Genocide-suspect Joseph Nzirorera Wednesday denied the prosecution claim that the then Rwandan ruling party, MRND refused to implement the Arusha Peace Accord signed in 1993, leading the 1994 genocide which left hundred thousands of Tutsis ethnics and moderate Hutus dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-22518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hirondellenews"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>26.05.10 - 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