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Fri 07 Jul 2008Rwanda threatens to withdraw troops from Darfur
RWANDA:RWANDA HAS threatened to withdraw its 3,000 peacekeepers from a UN-backed mission in the Darfur region of Sudan if the United Nations refuses to retain an alleged Rwandan war criminal as its second-highest-ranking commander there, according to US and UN officials.
The United Nations has sought to persuade the Rwandan government to replace Maj Gen Emmanuel Karake Karenzi, the deputy force commander of a joint African Union and UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur.
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