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Article

10 Feb 2000

Author:
Matt Wells, Guardian [UK]

Arms firm linked to Rwandan army chief

A British company that supplied arms to Rwanda during the country's civil war has been linked to the former army chief arrested in Britain on suspicion of genocide…Research by aid organisations, the UN, and journalists has not established that any firm other than Mil-Tec supplied arms from Albania to Rwanda in 1994, when 800,000 Tutsis, along with moderate Hutus, died at the hands of members of the Hutu majority…