19 March 2002

REPORTER MURDERED


In Rwanda, Jean-Marie Hategekimana, a reporter for the government weekly "Imvaho," was murdered on the night of 11 to 12 March in a bar in Kigali, says Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF). Hategekimana had been talking with three individuals including an official from the Ibuka group of genocide survivors' associations when two men burst into the bar and attempted to rob them. They shot all four individuals, who were declared dead on arrival at hospital, says RSF. Hategekimana was buried on 14 March. There is no indication as to whether he was killed because of his work as a journalist.

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