1994 Rwanda Air Crash Recorder Turns Up
The United Nations acknowledged that an aircraft recording device possibly linked to an air crash blamed for triggering the 1994 genocide in Rwanda had turned up in a U.N. filing cabinet.
The Paris daily Le Monde had reported that a recorder from the Falcon 50 shot down by a rocket April 6, 1994, killing the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, had been sent to the U.N. and never seen again.
The crash is believed to have sparked the slaughter of more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus by Rwanda’s Hutu regime. U.N. officials did not say whether the device was a voice or flight data recorder.
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