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Witness in Rwandan genocide-linked case, Abdul Ruzibiza, dies at 40 in Norway after illness

Abdul Ruzibiza, a former captain of a Tutsi rebel group and key witness in a French judge's investigation into a 1994 attack that triggered the Rwandan genocide, has died, Norwegian police said Friday. He was 40.

Ruzibiza died in a Norwegian hospital Wednesday after a long illness, said Reidun Brekke, who was Ruzibiza's supervisor at staffing company Adecco Norway.

A former captain of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, Ruzibiza released a book in 2005, saying the group was behind the 1994 attack that shot down then-President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane....
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