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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - Rwanda said Friday it has opened an inquiry into the mysterious shooting down of a plane carrying its president 13 years ago, which led to extremist Hutus taking power and starting the 1994 genocide.
The government decided to set up an inquiry because it has no confidence in a French magistrate's investigation into the April 6, 1994, attack on President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane, said Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama.
French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere issued arrest warrants last year for nine Rwandans suspected of plotting the downing of Habyarimana's plane, a decision that prompted Rwanda to break diplomatic links with France. France is investigating because the plane's crew was French.
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