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By KEVIN J. KELLEY  (email the author)
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Posted  Monday, November 2  2009 at  00:00

They wonder why the Obama administration has refused to hold Rwanda and Uganda “accountable for their involvement in illegal activities in the Congo.”

The advocacy group argued, “There has been no answer as to why US policy priorities do not include addressing Presidents Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni’s connection to Congolese individuals and groups that have chosen war over peace as a way of access to power.”

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