[RwandaLibre] 7 people hit squad was sent to South Africa to eliminate Karegeya

 

Rwandan man sought in connection with ex-spy chief's death


Undated photo taken in Kigale, Rwanda, of Patrick Karegeya, Rwanda's
former spy chief who was found dead, possibly strangled, in a hotel in
South Africa, police said Thursday Jan 2 2014. (AP Photo)

Ray Faure, The Associated Press
Published Friday, January 3, 2014 8:22AM EST
Last Updated Friday, January 3, 2014 11:39AM EST

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A Rwandan man was reportedly being
sought Friday by South African police in the death of former Rwandan
spymaster Patrick Karegeya whose body was discovered in a plush
Johannesburg hotel on New Year's Day.

According to the opposition Rwandan National Congress coalition and
the local New Age newspaper, the man was the last person to be seen
with Karegeya. However, police would not confirm nor deny it, saying
they were chasing up several leads.

Members of the Rwandan opposition claim Karegeya was assassinated at
the behest of Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

The New Age newspaper quoted Karegeya's nephew David Batenga as saying
that he and Karegeya had picked up a Rwandan man at a light-rail
station on Sunday and taken him to the Michelangelo Towers Hotel in
the plush Johannesburg suburb of Sandton. Karegeya was found dead in
the man's hotel room on Wednesday.

Theogene Rudasingwa, Washington-based co-ordinator of the Rwandan
National Congress, said in a telephone interview with the Associated
Press Thursday: "We have been told the guy who was last seen with
Patrick was from Rwanda, a Rwandan whom Patrick knew who used to go to
Rwanda and come back. I think he pretended to be Patrick's friend."

Batenga said he had left the men after a few hours, and tried to call
Karegeya on his cellphone on Tuesday evening but had received no
response. The police were alerted when Karegeya's phone was still
switched off the following morning, the newspaper reported.

The name of the Rwandan national reportedly being sought by police was
among the names of seven people claimed in a blog run by Rwandan
dissidents to belong to a hit squad sent to South Africa to eliminate
Karegeya. The blog said its information came from informers.

The special police investigation force, the Hawks, says it is making
progress in the investigation into what they call the murder of
Karegeya. Police suspect he might have been strangled. His neck was
swollen and a rope and bloodied towel were found.

"We are exploring all avenues," Hawks spokesman Captain Paul Ramaloko
told The Associated Press.

Karegeya, the former head of Rwanda's external intelligence service,
had been living in exile in South Africa for more than five years
after having a falling out with Kagame.

Rudasingwa described Karegeya's death as an assassination that fit a
pattern of attacks against prominent opponents of Kagame. The Rwandan
government has vehemently denied it targets opponents for
assassination.

Gunmen also twice tried to kill Kagame's former chief of army staff,
Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa, while he was living in exile in
Johannesburg in 2010. Nyamwasa told The Associated Press in 2012 that
Kagame has hunted him and other dissidents around the world, "using
hired killer squads."

In a brief telephone interview with AP on Friday, he was reluctant to
say who he believed was behind the killing of his friend and former
colleague, Karegeya.

"We are not sure. It's too early to say. We're still busy piecing all
the information together. I believe we should wait for the outcome of
the police investigation before commenting on the matter," Nyamwasa
said.

Karegeya told an AP journalist a month ago that his work organizing
the opposition to Kagame was risky and could cost him his life. He
also said his daughter's Rwandan passport was revoked on Kagame's
orders while she was trying to leave Uganda, where she grew up in
exile, and that Kagame blocked his own quest for work with the United
Nations.

The Rwandan government vehemently denies targeting dissidents, and
Rwandan High Commissioner Vincent Karega told local broadcaster eNCA
on Thursday that talk of assassination is an "emotional reaction and
opportunistic way of playing politics." He urged people to wait for
the police report in South Africa, which has one of the world's
highest murder rates.

Kagame has long been accused of extra-territorial killings, including
ones committed when Karegeya was the feared boss of Rwanda's external
security agency.

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[RwandaLibre] GuineeConakry.info: Le colonel Patrick Karegeya victime de son opposition à Kagamé?

Le colonel Patrick Karegeya victime de son opposition à Kagamé?

00:36 03.01.2014

Mort par strangulation et suffocation, c'est l'intime conviction des
membres du Rwanda National Congress qui ont les premiers vu le corps
du colonel Patrick Karegeya, ex- chef des services de renseignements
extérieurs de Kigali, dans une chambre de l'hôtel Michelangelo, à
Jo'Bourg en Afrique du Sud. Une mort suspecte contre laquelle, les
policiers sud africains sont déjà sur pied. Une mort qui relance, à
son corps défendant, tout le drame de l'opposition contre le régime
austère de Paul Kagamé. Même sans preuves évidentes, pour le moment,
tous les regards se tournent vers Kigali, car beaucoup pensent tout
simplement que le flegmatique président rwandais pourrait bien avoir
inspiré la liquidation de cet opposant fier et contestataire. Celui
dont les années passées dans les cellules obscures de son pays n'ont
point entamé l'extraordinaire résilience. Malgré l'exil sud africain,
il a pu fonder, il y a plus de deux ans, le RNC avec le général
Kayumba Nyamwasa, un parti d'opposition pour résister et résister
encore au pouvoir arbitraire à leurs yeux de Kagamé et de tous ses
complices... 0:36 3-1-2014

Des questions sans réponse

Mais qui donc, mieux que le pouvoir de Kigali avait intérêt à voir
disparaître ce dissident membre du Front patriotique rwandais ?

Mais, et si d'autres sentiers mafieux avaient conduit à lui ?

Que dire de cette méthode de liquidation qui ressemble fort à la
tradition mille fois éprouvée de services secrets au service de
pouvoirs politiques revanchards ?

Certains milieux ont aussi pensé au style de liquidations sommaires de
Mossad. Ni vu, ni connu, et jamais revendiqué. Les Palestiniens en
savent quelque chose. Pour ces observateurs, ce meurtre pourrait
porter longtemps encore la signature de traces perdues dans les
dédales des crimes aux auteurs inconnus ou impunis.

Quoiqu'il en soit, les autorités rwandaises sont d'une façon ou d'une
autre moralement interpellées. Elles se doivent de réagir. Si elles
sont innocentes, quelles le disent et le prouvent tout simplement, en
n'oubliant point que « le mensonge a beau construire mille cases,
c'est la vérité qui finira par les habiter ».

En attendant la police sud africaine peut continuer à investiguer…

Maria de Babia pour GuineeConakry.info

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Darling of the West, terror to his opponents: Meet Rwanda’s new scourge - Paul Kagame

 

Darling of the West, terror to his opponents: Meet Rwanda's new
scourge - Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame's rivals keep dying, but Clinton and Blair still shake his
hand, writes Ian Birrell

Paul Kagame has been described as a 'war criminal'

By Ian Birrell
Friday 03 January 2014

Patrick Karegeya knew Paul Kagame well. The pair went to school
together, worked alongside each other in Ugandan intelligence and then
fought to free their country from the genocidal gangsters who
unleashed horror in their native Rwanda. When Kagame became president,
Karegeya was put in charge of foreign intelligence services.

But after a decade, their disagreements, including over human rights
and attacks on neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, became too
strong. He was relieved of his duties, stripped of his rank as colonel
and jailed. Once free he fled, later joining forces with three other
prominent exiles to lead opposition to Kagame's government.

Knowing the Rwandan president so well, Karegeya was under no illusions
what might happen to him, especially after his friend Faustin Kayumba
Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach in South Africa in 2010. "The Rwandan
government can no longer tolerate any dissent," he said last year.
"There is a deliberate plan to finish us off."

Now the plain-speaking Karegeya is dead, his brutalised body
discovered in the room of a luxury South African hotel. A murder
investigation has been launched. It seems he was strangled, a rope
from the hotel curtains found with a bloodied towel in the safe.


Patrick Karegeya was found dead in a luxury South African hotel

Rwandan officials deny any complicity. They always do, of course. It
is part of the regime's tactics, their smart diplomats throwing up
smokescreens while smearing enemies and exploiting global sympathy for
the genocide.

But Nyamwasa, a former Rwandan army chief who has survived two
assassination attempts, asked who else might want to kill his friend.
"It is not the first time and it is not the last. Most of President
Kagame's political opposition are in exile or in prison or are dead."

It may take time for the full facts to filter out. Initial reports say
police want to interview a Rwandan man who met Karegeya at a rail
station then went with him to the hotel in the upmarket suburb of
Sandton.

Yet one thing is certain beyond the death of an important dissident.
Enemies of Kagame – the despot so beloved by Western democratic
leaders and charity dupes – seem to have a strange habit of dying in
disturbing circumstances.

Over the years a succession of prominent critics and campaigners,
judges and journalists, have been killed. They have been beaten,
beheaded, shot and stabbed, both at home in Rwanda and abroad in
nervous exile. Some were good people, others far from saints – and
their deaths came after crossing Kagame.

"We don't know the details of how and why Karegeya was murdered but
there is a long established pattern of assassination and attempted
assassination of Rwandan government critics," said Carina
Tertsakian, senior researcher on Rwanda at Human Rights Watch.

Kagame's strategy has been clear from the start of his rise to power;
indeed, defectors and dissidents have explained in detail how he man
gets rid of his rivals. "He believes that all opponents must die,"
said Karegeya last year.

Those who served as his aides, army officers and bodyguards have said
that even in exile during the days of bush warfare, he eliminated
those who threatened his authority. After taking power following the
1994 genocide, his repressive regime used murder, arbitrary arrest,
jail and strict media controls to sustain its incredibly rigid rule.

Former colleagues told me he never hid what would happen to enemies;
even Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who became a global hero
amid the hell of genocide, had to go into hiding.

All too typical was the story of Seth Sendashonga, the respected
Minister of the Interior in the post-genocide government. After
protesting human rights abuses in a series of memoranda sent to
Kagame, he was dismissed and went into exile in Kenya, where he became
increasingly vocal against the government.

After surviving a first assassination ambush in February 1996, in
which an arrested man with a firearm turned out to be an employee at
the Rwandan embassy, he was shot dead in Nairobi two years later. The
case bears similarities to the recent attacks in South Africa.

This killing of critics has happened with relentless regularity. There
was a particularly nasty spate before the 2010 election, when not only
was Nyamwasa targeted but a newspaper editor murdered, a rival
politician found near-beheaded and even a Tanzanian law professor
involved in a genocide case shot dead.

The following year Scotland Yard warned two exiles in Britain that a
Rwandan hit squad had been sent to kill them, although they were not
high-profile. Scandalously, even this did not stop the flow of British
aid and adulation.

One of the targets was Rene Mugenzi, a father of three and Liberal
Democrat activist. He had to cut off contact with many fellow Rwandan
exiles in Britain for fear they might be government agents and still
lives under a high state of security alert.

"This latest case is very troubling for me and my family," he told me.
"You just feel anything can happen, especially when nothing is done at
the international level against Kagame. It is like he has a licence to
kill."

And this is the key point. For despite the murders, the abuse of human
rights, the locking up of political rivals, the ceaseless and now
well-documented stoking of carnage and conflict in the Congo, Kagame
remains a leader lionised in Washington and Westminster.

The world's foremost scholar on Rwanda has described him as "probably
the worst war criminal in office today." Another leading academic
concluded he was running "a very well-managed ethnic, social and
economic dictatorship".

But Bill Clinton calls him "one of the greatest leaders of our time"
while Tony Blair, who works closely with him and has borrowed his
plush private jet, hails him as "a visionary leader". There is similar
adoration on the right among many Tories and Republicans; Rwanda was
even welcomed into the Commonwealth four years ago.

This disgusting hypocrisy, fuelled by the desperate search for an aid
success story, is underlined by Kagame's intelligence chief meeting
ministers in London despite being indicted by a Spanish judge, while
Theogene Rudasingwa, a leading Kagame opponent based in the United
States, is refused a visa.

Rudasingwa, Kagame's former chief of staff and one of his key
opponents alongside Karegeya, is dismayed by Western reluctance to
acknowledge Kagame's criminality despite a welter of evidence.

So was he scared following the latest apparent murder, I asked him on
Friday? "No," he replied. "This just makes me more determined. I know
he is on a mission to kill all of us but we are going to fight him to
the finishing line."

These are brave words, given what has happened to so many of those who
challenged Kagame. Yet Britain, to our lasting shame, continues to
back the monstrous killer in Kigali.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/darling-of-the-west-terror-to-his-opponents-meet-rwandas-new-scourge--paul-kagame-9037914.html

[RwandaLibre] Darling of the West, terror to his opponents: Meet Rwanda’s new scourge - Paul Kagame

 

Darling of the West, terror to his opponents: Meet Rwanda's new
scourge - Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame's rivals keep dying, but Clinton and Blair still shake his
hand, writes Ian Birrell

Paul Kagame has been described as a 'war criminal'

By Ian Birrell
Friday 03 January 2014

Patrick Karegeya knew Paul Kagame well. The pair went to school
together, worked alongside each other in Ugandan intelligence and then
fought to free their country from the genocidal gangsters who
unleashed horror in their native Rwanda. When Kagame became president,
Karegeya was put in charge of foreign intelligence services.

But after a decade, their disagreements, including over human rights
and attacks on neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, became too
strong. He was relieved of his duties, stripped of his rank as colonel
and jailed. Once free he fled, later joining forces with three other
prominent exiles to lead opposition to Kagame's government.

Knowing the Rwandan president so well, Karegeya was under no illusions
what might happen to him, especially after his friend Faustin Kayumba
Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach in South Africa in 2010. "The Rwandan
government can no longer tolerate any dissent," he said last year.
"There is a deliberate plan to finish us off."

Now the plain-speaking Karegeya is dead, his brutalised body
discovered in the room of a luxury South African hotel. A murder
investigation has been launched. It seems he was strangled, a rope
from the hotel curtains found with a bloodied towel in the safe.


Patrick Karegeya was found dead in a luxury South African hotel

Rwandan officials deny any complicity. They always do, of course. It
is part of the regime's tactics, their smart diplomats throwing up
smokescreens while smearing enemies and exploiting global sympathy for
the genocide.

But Nyamwasa, a former Rwandan army chief who has survived two
assassination attempts, asked who else might want to kill his friend.
"It is not the first time and it is not the last. Most of President
Kagame's political opposition are in exile or in prison or are dead."

It may take time for the full facts to filter out. Initial reports say
police want to interview a Rwandan man who met Karegeya at a rail
station then went with him to the hotel in the upmarket suburb of
Sandton.

Yet one thing is certain beyond the death of an important dissident.
Enemies of Kagame – the despot so beloved by Western democratic
leaders and charity dupes – seem to have a strange habit of dying in
disturbing circumstances.

Over the years a succession of prominent critics and campaigners,
judges and journalists, have been killed. They have been beaten,
beheaded, shot and stabbed, both at home in Rwanda and abroad in
nervous exile. Some were good people, others far from saints – and
their deaths came after crossing Kagame.

"We don't know the details of how and why Karegeya was murdered but
there is a long established pattern of assassination and attempted
assassination of Rwandan government critics," said Carina
Tertsakian, senior researcher on Rwanda at Human Rights Watch.

Kagame's strategy has been clear from the start of his rise to power;
indeed, defectors and dissidents have explained in detail how he man
gets rid of his rivals. "He believes that all opponents must die,"
said Karegeya last year.

Those who served as his aides, army officers and bodyguards have said
that even in exile during the days of bush warfare, he eliminated
those who threatened his authority. After taking power following the
1994 genocide, his repressive regime used murder, arbitrary arrest,
jail and strict media controls to sustain its incredibly rigid rule.

Former colleagues told me he never hid what would happen to enemies;
even Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who became a global hero
amid the hell of genocide, had to go into hiding.

All too typical was the story of Seth Sendashonga, the respected
Minister of the Interior in the post-genocide government. After
protesting human rights abuses in a series of memoranda sent to
Kagame, he was dismissed and went into exile in Kenya, where he became
increasingly vocal against the government.

After surviving a first assassination ambush in February 1996, in
which an arrested man with a firearm turned out to be an employee at
the Rwandan embassy, he was shot dead in Nairobi two years later. The
case bears similarities to the recent attacks in South Africa.

This killing of critics has happened with relentless regularity. There
was a particularly nasty spate before the 2010 election, when not only
was Nyamwasa targeted but a newspaper editor murdered, a rival
politician found near-beheaded and even a Tanzanian law professor
involved in a genocide case shot dead.

The following year Scotland Yard warned two exiles in Britain that a
Rwandan hit squad had been sent to kill them, although they were not
high-profile. Scandalously, even this did not stop the flow of British
aid and adulation.

One of the targets was Rene Mugenzi, a father of three and Liberal
Democrat activist. He had to cut off contact with many fellow Rwandan
exiles in Britain for fear they might be government agents and still
lives under a high state of security alert.

"This latest case is very troubling for me and my family," he told me.
"You just feel anything can happen, especially when nothing is done at
the international level against Kagame. It is like he has a licence to
kill."

And this is the key point. For despite the murders, the abuse of human
rights, the locking up of political rivals, the ceaseless and now
well-documented stoking of carnage and conflict in the Congo, Kagame
remains a leader lionised in Washington and Westminster.

The world's foremost scholar on Rwanda has described him as "probably
the worst war criminal in office today." Another leading academic
concluded he was running "a very well-managed ethnic, social and
economic dictatorship".

But Bill Clinton calls him "one of the greatest leaders of our time"
while Tony Blair, who works closely with him and has borrowed his
plush private jet, hails him as "a visionary leader". There is similar
adoration on the right among many Tories and Republicans; Rwanda was
even welcomed into the Commonwealth four years ago.

This disgusting hypocrisy, fuelled by the desperate search for an aid
success story, is underlined by Kagame's intelligence chief meeting
ministers in London despite being indicted by a Spanish judge, while
Theogene Rudasingwa, a leading Kagame opponent based in the United
States, is refused a visa.

Rudasingwa, Kagame's former chief of staff and one of his key
opponents alongside Karegeya, is dismayed by Western reluctance to
acknowledge Kagame's criminality despite a welter of evidence.

So was he scared following the latest apparent murder, I asked him on
Friday? "No," he replied. "This just makes me more determined. I know
he is on a mission to kill all of us but we are going to fight him to
the finishing line."

These are brave words, given what has happened to so many of those who
challenged Kagame. Yet Britain, to our lasting shame, continues to
back the monstrous killer in Kigali.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/darling-of-the-west-terror-to-his-opponents-meet-rwandas-new-scourge--paul-kagame-9037914.html

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Assassinat de Patrick Karegeya: l'un des principaux suspects reste introuvable

Assassinat de Patrick Karegeya: l'un des principaux suspects reste introuvable

 

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[RwandaLibre] Comment le téléphone portable a changé la politique en Afrique

 

Comment le téléphone portable a changé la politique en Afrique
Par Sabine Cessou


Le portable a changé le rapport des citoyens aux politiques.
youtube.com

Avec les smartphones, qui allient la technologie du portable à celle
d'Internet, les rapports de force ont changé en Afrique. Exemples en
Guinée, au Kenya et au Rwanda, où de simples citoyens témoignent
désormais en temps réel des violences politiques en prenant des
images.Avec de lourdes conséquences pour les responsables politiques
incriminés.

Sans le téléphone portable, le massacre du 28-Septembre 2009 dans un
stade de Conakry en Guinée n'aurait sans doute pas provoqué la même
onde de choc. Ce n'était pas la première fois que des civils désarmés
étaient tués par leur propre armée, habituée sous les régimes
dictatoriaux de Sékou Touré puis de Lansana Conté à réprimer les
manifestations dans le sang. Fait sans précédent, cependant, la tuerie
a été immortalisée et retransmise aussitôt sur Internet, par le biais
de photos et de scènes filmées par des témoins sur leurs portables.

Le monde entier a vu des images des 156 morts qu'a causé ce massacre,
ainsi que des violences faites aux femmes: au moins 109 d'entre elles
ont été violées par des militaires dans les jours qui ont suivi.
Aussitôt, l'émoi international s'était traduit par une forte pression
diplomatique sur la junte au pouvoir. Moussa Dadis Camara, un
putschiste qui a succédé au président Lansana Conté après la mort de
ce dernier fin 2008. Il avait promis de rendre le pouvoir aux civils
au bout d'un an, avant de changer d'avis et de se présenter à la
présidentielle tant attendue, mobilisant contre lui un vaste front de
la société civile et une foule de manifestants.

Après le massacre du 28-Septembre, les Nations unies ont envoyé une
mission d'enquête internationale, puis la Cour pénale internationale
(CPI) a ouvert une enquête préliminaire. Des démarches qui ont
provoqué de vives tensions au sein de l'armée, ensuite contrainte de
mener une transition express. Autre première en Guinée : la justice a
lancé des poursuites contre les responsables du massacre et ouvert des
procès suivis de près par la CPI.

Recul de l'impunité au Kenya
Au Kenya, à l'autre bout de l'Afrique, l'impunité a aussi reculé grâce
au téléphone portable. Après une présidentielle contestée, fin 2007,
des citoyens se sont regroupés pour lancer le site Internet Ushahidi
http://www.ushahidi.com/ (« témoin » en swahili). Leur objectif :
collecter les témoignages et localiser les incidents sur Google Maps.
Ce média social innovant a permis de croiser les informations reçues
par SMS, courrier électronique, comptes Twitter et Facebook, sur des
violences qui ont fait plus de 1 300 morts.
Le logiciel développé pour cette plateforme, dénommé SwiftRiver, a
depuis connu un succès mondial. Il a été utilisé lors de catastrophes
naturelles telles que le séisme de 2010 en Haïti, puis la tempête de
neige à Washington et les incendies de forêt en Russie. Il n'a
cependant pas encore fait d'émules ailleurs en Afrique, lors d'autres
crises post-électorales.



A Goma, dans une boutique de téléphones portables.
⁠Getty images/R.J. Ross⁠

L'existence d'Ushahidi n'en a pas moins été lourde de conséquences
pour les responsables politiques kényans. Des mandats d'arrêt
internationaux ont été lancés contre eux par la CPI, qui juge pour la
première fois de son histoire des dirigeants en exercice. Le procès du
vice-président William Ruto s'est ouvert en septembre dernier, et
celui du président en exercice, Uhuru Kenyatta, prévu pour novembre,
est reporté au 5 février 2014.

Des contrepouvoirs importants, groupes de presse, syndicats et ONG se
sont dotés partout de sites Internet. Dans certains pays, le contrôle
de l'information se fait plus strict. Au Rwanda, notamment, la Ligue
des droits de la personne dans la région des Grands-Lacs (LDGL
http://www.ldgl.org/) a choisi d'héberger son site Internet en Suisse
pour éviter interférences et censure sur ses informations en ligne.

Le président rwandais Paul Kagamé https://twitter.com/PaulKagame, de
son côté, figure avec son homologue nigérian Goodluck Jonathan parmi
les chefs d'Etat les plus connectés d'Afrique. Par le biais de son
compte Twitter, suivi par 200 000 personnes, il répond parfois à ses
critiques. « Personne dans les médias, les Nations unies et les
groupes des droits de l'homme, n'a le droit de me critiquer, selon le
despotique et délirant Kagamé », twittait ainsi Ian Birrell
http://www.aviewfromthecave.com/2011/05/ian-birrell-vs-paul-kagame-on-twitter.html,
ancien rédacteur en chef-adjoint du quotidien britannique « The
Independent », le 14 mai 2010. Le même jour, il a reçu une réponse de
Paul Kagamé : « Vous non plus… Aucune autorité morale! ». Les
nouvelles technologies changent le rapport des citoyens avec leurs
responsables politiques, mais aussi celui de ces dirigeants avec le
reste du monde.

http://www.rfi.fr/mfi/20140103-telephone-portable-mobile-smartphone-politique-afrique?ns_campaign=editorial&ns_source=gplus&ns_mchannel=reseaux_sociaux&ns_fee=0&ns_linkname=20140103_telephone_portable_mobile_smartphone_politique_afrique

Il n'y a plus aucun doute, le sauvetage du Rwanda viendra de
l'extérieur. L'intérieur du pays est "pris en otage".

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