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Paul Kagame (AP)
Paul Kagame (AP)

Kigali - Rwandan investigators on Saturday urged the government to take action against the BBC and ban its radio programmes from the country's airwaves over a controversial documentary questioning official versions of the 1994 genocide.

The probe led by the country's former top prosecutor Martin Ngoga found the British broadcaster broke Rwandan law on genocide denial in its report on the massacres that left around 800 000 dead.

The BBC has rejected all the accusations against it.

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