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The return of former priest Thomas Nahimana after 11 years in exile in France sparked fierce debate in Rwanda where pro-government media accuse him of preaching ethnic hatred and denying the 1994 Tutsi genocide. "To our surprise, as we were preparing to board, agents from Kenya Airways came and forbade us from boarding this plane and returning to Rwanda," Nahimana said in a statement, vowing to remain in transit in Nairobi until he was allowed to do so. The Rwandan Catholic Church in 2011 asked France to stop Nahimana from publishing material which it claimed denies the 1994 massacre in which mostly members of the Hutu ethnic group killed some 800,000 people in a 100-day genocidal spree.

 

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