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UNITED NATIONS, March 17 (UPI) -- Initial examination of a black box suspected of being from an air crash that led to the 1994 Rwanda genocide has yielded little information.
Chief U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said a cockpit voice recorder discovered last week locked in a U.N. file cabinet for 10 years and thought to have come from the aircraft shot down while landing at Kigali has yielded only some conversation in French but nothing so far to link it to the crash.
Killed aboard the aircraft were presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprian Ntayamira of Burundi. Their deaths set off a chain of killings and massacres throughout Rwanda in 1994, with the death toll mounting to more than 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis and "moderate" Hutu.
Copies of the recording were taken to the U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal for more detailed examination.
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