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Victims of Rwandan Sex Crimes Await Justice

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Published April 2, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

In 1994, amid a mass slaughter that left about 800,000 people dead in Rwanda, another 250,000 were raped. The Rwandan government now finds it easier to win confessions for the killings than for the sex crimes. Michael Kavanagh reports.

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