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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - Rwanda's government has proposed eliminating the death penalty for genocide to encourage European countries and Canada to extradite suspected masterminds of the nation's 1994 mass killings, the attorney general said Friday.
Rwanda has repeatedly demanded that Western nations extradite any genocide suspects they know are living in their countries, but some nations have expressed reservations because of the death penalty.
"We know that capital punishment is a sensitive subject in Rwanda but we would rather compromise a little and get the suspects here for trial than allow them to roam the world freely," Attorney General Martin Ngoga told The Associated Press.
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