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Sat 10 Oct 2008UN offers to retain general accused of war crimes
UNITED STATES:UN SECRETARY general Ban Ki-moon has offered to retain a Rwandan general as the global agency's second-highest-ranking commander in Sudan's war-torn Darfur, despite allegations that he oversaw troops responsible for war crimes in Rwanda during the 1990s, according to UN officials.
Mr Ban told the Rwandan government last week that Maj Gen Emmanuel Karake Karenzi would be granted a six-month contract as the deputy force commander for the African Union-UN Mission in Darfur when his one-year term expires later this month.
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