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Rwanda: Rwigema Opens Door for More Returnees

On Friday June 10, about 3,000 Rwandans in the Diaspora converged at Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago to celebrate "Rwanda Day 2011." The day's main speaker was President Paul Kagame. In the audience was Pierre Celestin Rwigema, a one time prime minister, who in 2000 sneaked out of the country into exile in the United States of America eluding prosecution for his alleged role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide against ethnic Tutsi.