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| - We are offering the following Editor's Choice stories which have been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week: + From France to Rwanda's hills, the husband-and-wife genocide hunters + Hazaras fear for the future as foreign troops exit Afghanistan + How Iran lured a dissident from France to execution + In crisis-hit Venezuela, maternity wards have become death traps Rwanda-genocide-investigation-France-court,SPECIAL REPORT BISESERO, Rwanda A stunned silence, and then cries of joy ring out in the green Bisesero hills. Survivors of one of the most terrible episodes of the genocide in Rwanda have just spotted Alain Gauthier -- their lifeline to justice. 2,200 words by Lucie Peytermann. Pictures by Simon Wohlfahrt in Rwanda and Francois Nascimbeni in France. Video by Simon Wohlfahrt in Rwanda and Guillaume Bonnet in France Afghanistan-Hazara-violence,FOCUS BAMIYAN, Afghanistan The choice was straightforward for Hamidullah Asadi, a member of Afghanistan's minority Hazara community -- wait for the next deadly attack or join a growing militia in the mountains. 850 words by David Stout and Najiba Noori. Picture. Video Iran-rights-justice-France,FOCUS PARIS In October 2019, Iranian dissident Ruhollah Zam was running a widely followed news site based in France. But just over a year later he was hanged in Iran. How did Zam go from relative comfort to the hangman's noose? 1,000 words by Stuart Williams and Cecile Feuillatre. File picture. Video by Guillaume Bonnet Venezuela-health-economy-children,FOCUS CARACAS Red roses and a burning candle frame the small white casket Wendy Dulcey is caressing at a hospital morgue. It contains the remains of her baby son who died on December 1, 39 days after he was born -- a cruel fate befalling far too many in the crisis-hit South American country. 700 words by Andrea Tosta. Pictures by Yadira Perez. Video by Camille Rodriguez afp
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