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Cory Booker: human rights advocates are asserting the laws and taboos prohibiting public acknowledgement of ethnic identity have been…

On the recordJanuary 2, 2017
human rights advocates are asserting the laws and taboos prohibiting public acknowledgement of ethnic identity have been wielded as a tool to silence criticism of the government.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker raises concerns about human rights abuses in Rwanda under Kagame's government.

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