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KIGALI, Rwanda, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Incumbent President Paul Kagame, who was among those who voted Monday in Rwanda's first presidential elections, remained confident of victory.
But Voice of America reported there were widespread accusations of intimidation of opposition supporters by Kagame's government. Two other candidates are opposing Kagame.
Kagame helped end the 1994 tribal genocide in Rwanda that left some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead.
About 4 million people, or half of Rwanda's population, were registered to vote Monday. They began lining up well before dawn at about 1,400 polling stations across the country.
Kagame, a Tutsi, was elected president three-years ago by Parliament, but has effectively ruled Rwanda for nine years. In 1994, he ousted the Hutu government responsible for the genocide.
"Our country has made huge strides in the area of building national unity and reconciliation and many other areas," Kagame told reporters in the capital Kigali after voting. "And the results (of the election) should be able to show that."
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