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Today's Video Focus: People comemorated this Sunday the victims of the genocide which started on April 6, 1994 in Rwanda and lasted about 100 days, claiming the lives of 800,000 people, or 10 percent of the country’s total population.
Focus of the Day Article:
Committee calls for abolition of short sentences & criticises government’s ‘crisis management’ approach. Judges in the criminal courts should be given powers to monitor non-custodial interventions and short sentences should be abolished, an 18-month parliamentary inquiry has recommended.
Committee calls for abolition of short sentences & criticises government’s ‘crisis management’ approach. Judges in the criminal courts should be given powers to monitor non-custodial interventions and short sentences should be abolished, an 18-month parliamentary inquiry has recommended.
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