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- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-21. Retrieved 2011-12-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- 1 2 3 Indictment against Nzabonimana [ permanent dead link ], from the ICTR
- ↑ Musician again pleads not guilty to genocide, Hirondelle.org, March 8, 2003
- ↑ African Rights seeks severe sanctions for FDLR Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine , Rwanda News Agency, October 25, 2005
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- http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/Geno4-7-04.htm
- Kamanzi, Rwanda, Du Génocide à la Defaite, p. 110; African Rights, Rwanda, Death, Despair, p. 361.