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    Reporter's Notebook: Rwandan's Trial Triggers Memories Of Genocide

    NPR's Jackie Northam describes what it was like recently sitting across a courtroom from a man accused of atrocities in Rwanda, 25 years after she covered the genocide.
    by Jackie Northam Apr 09, 2019 2 minutes
    People hold candles during a night vigil and prayer to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, in Kigali, Rwanda, on Sunday. Rwandans began 100 days of mourning for more than 800,000 people killed.

    Last week, at the tail end of a monthlong trial in a federal court in Boston, a tall and impeccably dressed man took the witness stand. Jean Leonard Teganya, a Rwandan, raised his hand and took an oath to tell the truth.

    For the next three hours, Teganya's lawyer probed where he was and what he did during the genocide that engulfed Rwanda 25 years ago. More

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