Further evidence existed elsewhere in the capital. The vaults in the Banque Nationale du Rwanda (BNR) held the documentary proof of the preparations for the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi.19 For two years, the files and ledgers lay undisturbed until August 1996, when two experts arrived. ‘We found cellars full,’ recalled Pierre Galand. Galand was a former director of Oxfam-Belgium and a Belgian senator, and his colleague, Professor Michel Chossudovsky, was a Canadian economist and expert in international development and finance. Rwanda’s post-genocide government had received a demand to repay the
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