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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaRwanda genocide: World failed us in 1994, President Paul Kagame saysPublished1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsRwandan genocideImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame said the country was “humbled by the magnitude of our loss”Rwanda’s president said the international community “failed all of us”, as he marked 30 years since the 1994 genocide that killed around 800,000 people.President Paul Kagame addressed dignitaries and world leaders who had gathered in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, to commemorate the bloodshed.”Rwanda was completely humbled by the magnitude of our loss,” he said. “And the lessons we learned are engraved in blood.”On this day in 1994, extremists from the Hutu ethnic group launched a 100-day killing spree, in which members of the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates were slaughtered.The mainly Tutsi forces who took power following the genocide were alleged to have killed thousands of Hutu people in Rwanda in retaliation.On Sunday, Mr Kagame and a group of dignitaries placed wreathes on mass graves at the Kigali Genocide Memorial – where more than 250,000 victims are believed to be buried. The president also lit a remembrance flame.In a speech later, Mr Kagame thanked fellow African countries including Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania for their assistance in ending the genocide.”Many of the countries representing here also sent their sons and daughters to serve as peacekeepers in Rwanda,” he said. “Those soldiers did not fail Rwanda. It was the international community which failed all of us. Whether from contempt or cowardice.” The failure of other nations to intervene has been a cause of lingering shame.Former US President Bill Clinton, who was among the visiting leaders present, has called the genocide the biggest failure of his administration.In a video message recorded for the memorial, French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that his country and its allies could have stopped the genocide but lacked the will to do so.France, under then-president François Mitterrand, was a close ally of the Hutu-led government of Juvenal Habyarimana prior to the killings, and Rwanda has accused France of ignoring or missing warning signs and of training the militias who carried out the attacks.France has consistently denied complicity, but a report commissioned by Mr Macron three years ago concluded that France bears “heavy and overwhelming responsibilities”.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Former US President Bill Clinton and current South African President Cyril Ramaphosa were among the world leaders presentFrench Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné attended the ceremony in Kigali in place of Mr Macron on Sunday. Other visiting dignitaries included Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog.Sunday’s events mark the beginning of a week-long mourning period across Rwanda. Music, sport and films will be banned from broadcast on radio or TV and national flags will be flown at half-mast.The streets of Kigali have been unusually quiet, according to the BBC team there, with no traffic, many shops closed, and few pedestrians.The genocide was sparked on the night of 6 April 1994, when Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana was assassinated – the plane he was on was shot down.Hutu extremists blamed the Tutsi RPF rebel group, and launched a well-organised campaign of slaughter.Their victims were shot, beaten or hacked to death in killings fuelled by vicious anti-Tutsi propaganda spread on TV and radio.Thousands of Tutsi women were abducted and kept as sex slaves.After 100 days of violence, the RPF rebel militia, led by Mr Kagame, succeeded in overthrowing the Hutu authorities and ending the genocide.Human rights groups say RPF fighters killed thousands of Hutu civilians as they took power – and more after they pursued Hutu militia members who had fled into the Democratic Republic of Congo. The RPF denies this.Scars from the violence still remain, and new mass graves are still being uncovered around the country.In the months that followed the genocide, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was set up in Tanzania.Dozens of senior officials in the former regime were convicted of genocide – all of them Hutus.Within Rwanda, community courts, known as gacaca, were created to speed up the prosecution of hundreds of thousands of genocide suspects awaiting trial.According to Rwanda, hundreds of suspects remain at large, including in neighbouring nations such as DR Congo and Uganda.President Kagame has been hailed for transforming the tiny, devastated country he took over through policies which encouraged rapid economic growth.But his critics say he does not tolerate dissent and several opponents have met unexplained deaths, both in the country and abroad.Image source, BBC/Jean Claude MwambutsaImage caption, Kigali’s usually bustling Kimironko Market was empty as Rwandans observed genocide commemorationsThe genocide remains a hugely sensitive issue in Rwanda, and it is illegal to talk about ethnicity.More on the Rwandan genocide:BBC reporter returns home to Rwanda – 30 years after genocideRwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter’I forgave my husband’s killer – our children married’Related TopicsRwandan genocideRwandaTop StoriesLive. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaMarvin Gaye: Never-before heard music resurfaces in BelgiumPublished1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Marvin Gaye moved to Belgium in 1981, where he recovered from a cocaine addiction and later recorded Sexual HealingBy Kevin Connolly, Richard Crook and Bruno BoelpaepBBC News, OstendFor the last 40 years Marvin Gaye has enjoyed a level of enduring fame which he shares with only a handful of other artists – like Elvis, or the Beatles.They began their careers cutting records on vinyl discs, lived on through the eras of tape cassettes and CDs, and continue to thrive in the age of digital streaming. It is 40 years since Marvin Gaye died in Los Angeles – shot dead by his father in the middle of a violent domestic dispute.But his music is still streamed and downloaded around 20 million times a month, and his classic duet with Tammi Terrell, Ain’t No Mountain, has been streamed more than a billion times. So the value of a cache of audio tapes containing new material recorded by Marvin Gaye could be huge.They’re part of a strange treasure trove of material associated with the star which lay hidden in Belgium for more than forty years, but which may now be about to make global headlines.The story of Marvin’s Belgian connection has been told before.He was living in London and becoming a heavy user of cocaine when he met a Belgian concert promoter in a nightclub. He took the promoter’s business card and a week later called and arranged to move to the coastal city of Ostend.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Ostend fondly remembers Marvin Gaye’s stay – with photos of the star adorning bars he visitedIt’s not an exaggeration to say the move may have saved the singer’s life. He got fit again, jogging and cycling on the flat North Sea landscape, and he returned to the studio, recording one of his greatest hits, Sexual Healing. For a time he lived in the home of a Belgian musician, Charles Dumolin. The collection of stage costumes, notebooks and tape cassettes is now in the hands of Charles’ family.But now the BBC can disclose the intriguing possibility that Marvin may have recorded previously unheard new music in the same period, which has lain hidden in Belgium for more than forty years. Belgian lawyer Alex Trappeniers, who’s a business partner of the family who lay claim to the material, is in no doubt that the fate of a hugely valuable collection of stage costumes, notebooks and never-before heard music is about to be decided.Speaking exclusively to the BBC, he explained the legal position as he sees it.”They belong to [the family] because they were left in Belgium 42 years ago,” he says. “Marvin gave it to them and said, ‘Do whatever you want with it’ and he never came back. That’s important.”At the heart of this story though is that new, never-before heard music.Image caption, Alex Trappeniers argues the never-before heard tapes belong to the Dumolin familyAlex played us a brief, tantalising sample of Marvin rehearsing. In a rather eerie moment, the Prince of Motown almost seemed to live again.He and his backing musicians deliver a complex sequence of harmonies and the great man says self-deprecatingly: “Was the tape-recorder on? I’m not sure I could do that again.”The task of getting the recordings into some sort of order was huge, but it gives a clear hint as to how big – and how important – this find could be.”Each time a new instrumental started when Marvin started singing, I gave it a number,” Alex told us. “At the end when I had listened to all the 30 tapes I had 66 demos of new songs. A few of them are complete and a few of them are as good as Sexual Healing, because it was made in the same time.”One new track above the others makes Alex think we might hear another global hit from Marvin Gaye in the future – just think of the way in which relatively primitive recordings of the Beatles were salvaged and remastered to create their final hit Now and Then.Image caption, A legal fight over the ownership of the tapes – and the music – is now brewingAlex wouldn’t play us the song – he hasn’t even played it to his wife – but he says simply: “There was one song that when I listened to it for ten seconds I found the music was in my head all day, the words were in my head all day, like a moment of planetary alignment.”On a more practical level, there’s no doubt about the authenticity of the archive.We spent an afternoon in a private room in a concert hall in Ostend flicking through page after page of documents revealing every aspect of Marvin Gaye’s life at the time.There are typed running orders for concert performances, angry letters to his record company, drafts of lyrics for new songs and notebooks filled with private thoughts.The BBC has seen a rack of Marvin Gaye’s clothes and costumes, including the unmistakeable red suit which he wore on tour. They are, we were told, just a small sample of the total.Image caption, It’s not just tapes – Ostend is also home to some of Marvin Gaye’s tour outfits tooBut above all there is the music.We sat, spellbound, looking out at the Ostend promenade where Marvin used to enjoy jogging as we listened to the startling purity and power of that voice in studio recordings which had never been heard before. It was a spine-tingling moment, and Alex Trappeniers is in no doubt of its potential value.”We can open a time capsule here and share the music of Marvin with the world,” he said. “It’s very clear. He’s very present.”But of course stories about intellectual property and music publishing rights are rarely straightforward.Marvin’s apparent decision to gift this material to Charles who died in 2019 does seem to mean that the collection belongs absolutely to the Dumolin family.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Marvin Gaye died in 1984, shot dead by his own fatherOn top of that, Belgium has a rather unusual law which stipulates that any property, however you acquire it, even if you steal it, becomes absolutely yours after a period of 30 years.So far, so clear.But that Belgian law doesn’t apply to intellectual property.So Alex Trappeniers and his partners could end up as the owners of the physical tapes on which the music was recorded, without the right to publish the songs. And the heirs of Marvin Gaye in the United States could find themselves with a theoretical right to exploit the music, but with no way of accessing the music – because they don’t own the tapes.In Alex’s view the case for some kind of compromise is obvious.”I think we both benefit, the family of Marvin and the collection in the hands of [Dumolin’s heirs]. If we put our hands together and find the right people in the world, the Mark Ronsons or the Bruno Mars…. I’m not here to make suggestions but to say OK, let’s listen to this and let’s make the next album.”The level of secrecy surrounding the disclosure of Marvin Gaye’s Belgian archive makes it hard to judge what the global impact of the collection might be.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Ostend erected a statue of Marvin Gaye to commemorate his time in the cityMore important still of course will be the question of how all this is received by Marvin Gaye’s children, Marvin III, Nona and Frankie, and by the administrators of his estate.We reached out to the Gaye family for a response. Lawyers for two of Marvin Gaye’s three children are now aware of the existence of this Belgian collection. It’s possible that negotiations may follow, but they haven’t started yet. A compromise might be reached between the owners of the physical tapes on the one hand and the owners of the rights on the other.Morally there may be people reading this who feel that the collection of documents, costumes and recordings belongs to the Gaye family and should simply be handed over to them.Alex argues that the legal situation just isn’t that straightforward, and that he and his partners have the right to simply sell the whole collection.”Morally,” he says, “I’d like to work with the family but this is the nightmare for them… that someone comes from a country where there’s a lot of money and we make an agreement and this collection leaves this country.”If that happens, says Alex, there’d be nothing to stop a buyer from exploiting the music of Marvin Gaye and passing it off as his own. An extraordinary possibility – but he insists, a real one.Forty years on from his short life and tragic death, Marvin Gaye could once again find himself at the centre of one of the biggest showbusiness stories of the year.Related TopicsCopyrightUnited StatesMusicBelgiumMore on this storyHow similar are Ed Sheeran and Marvin Gaye’s songs?Published28 April 2023Universal Music to pull songs from TikTokPublished31 JanuaryStake in Michael Jackson catalogue sells for $600mPublished10 FebruaryTop StoriesDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson resigns after rape chargePublished12 hours agoGirl’s death sparks deadly mob violence in MexicoPublished1 hour agoLost Marvin Gaye music resurfaces in BelgiumPublished1 hour agoFeaturesThe Papers: DUP leader charged and ‘hefty’ water bill riseChris Mason: Another moment of instability for Northern IrelandSeven bills going up and one going down in AprilAI photos show people with cancer their lost future’I drove 14 hours to see a Banksy for 10 minutes’The football pitch that doubles as an execution groundCanada’s drug experiment hits strong oppositionEwan McGregor ‘turned into his grandad’ in new roleA view from inside ship that hit Baltimore bridge. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaWar-weary Ukrainians endure as Russia’s invasion drags onPublished26 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsWar in UkraineImage source, ReutersImage caption, Lviv’s cemeteries are now filled with the graves of those killed in Russia’s full-scale invasionBy Fergal KeaneBBC News, LvivNearly two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine Fergal Keane returns to Lviv station where in February and March 2022 he witnessed the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War Two. In the stories of two individuals he examines how the war – now dragging into its third year – has affected the people of Ukraine.We heard the screams from far away. They came floating across the rows of the dead, over other graves still waiting to be filled, and over the rows of flags to commemorate the fallen, that flapped in the icy wind. The military cemetery of the Field of Mars in Lviv is usually a place of whispered prayers and stifled sobs. But on this winter morning the sound was a full-throated rage.He was about 100 yards away, a middle-aged man in military camouflage, walking between the lines of graves. He stopped and raised his hands to the sky and shouted out: “Death to the enemy.” He walked on and after a few steps began to scream again. No words. Just an agonised howl that gradually faded as he moved away. Nearby, a mother and daughter were settling flowers around the grave of a young man, a son, a brother. They had heard the commotion but continued with their work as if, two years and thousands of deaths into the war, it was all part of the normal order of things.There are war funerals most days in Lviv. The coffins are brought first to Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church where I witnessed the first funerals of the Russian invasion back in February 2022. Then, the war felt dramatically like a fight for national survival.The city of Lviv was the setting for the greatest refugee crisis in Europe since World War Two. Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Millions of Ukrainians fled west after Russia launched its invasion in February 2022More than ten million Ukrainians had been uprooted from their homes and Lviv station teemed with refugees fleeing west. Stories of atrocities from places like Bucha and Mariupol arrived with every refugee train.The drama captured the attention of the world. People fought to get on trains. The elderly and the sick were carried in wheelchairs up the crowded steps to the platforms. There was the constant noise of children crying, voices on the station tannoy, the whistles of trains arriving and departing, and always the air raid sirens to remind people that death could come at any time.To return is to find a station that has accustomed itself to war. On platform five the refugee crowds are long gone. So too the army of volunteer medics and stewards, cooks and musicians, whose kindness helped ease the terror felt by so many.Now there are young men and women waiting in the cold and shadows for trains to take them east to fight. And there are families returning from abroad for brief visits to loved ones still living in Ukraine. Two years on, the war has settled on Lviv station, a stubborn season that will not move. There is weariness. And everywhere, stories of what’s been lost.Take the story of Natasha Ambarova. She was a doctor who ran an emergency clinic at the station.Image caption, Natasha – originally a Russian citizen – now wants to sign up to fight for UkraineWe met at the height of the refugee crisis, when she was directing a team of doctors, nurses and volunteers, constantly on the move down the long, crowded corridors to wherever help was needed. Through all of this she was dealing with a family crisis: Natasha is of Russian origin and her siblings in Moscow supported Putin’s war. Natasha has lost all contact with her Russian family.”These people are lost for me. They will never say no and will remain silent like slaves.”Natasha is teaching medicine at Lviv University, aware that her students might be drafted to fight. Several staff from the university have been killed. Her own feelings towards Russia have hardened. She describes the air raids on the city, and how her children were woken by a door being blown off its hinges by an explosion. Now this doctor, this mother of a 10-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, wants to fight. The healer of bodies would like to be a sniper.”I love shooting from different weapons. I would be a good sniper,” she says.When I ask how someone whose mission it is to heal felt about being prepared to kill, she replies: “It’s my war… I will kill anyone so my children will be safe. This is a matter of survival. I am fighting for my land.”The war is impacting the psyche of Ukrainians in many different ways. After so much suffering, trauma is everywhere and expresses itself in different ways. But it has not erased the spirit of kindness that was so evident two years ago.In a carriage heading towards Kyiv, I meet a short, stocky man with an engaging smile. Volodymyr Moisei is one-armed, the consequence of a car accident several years ago, and so his military role is that of a chaplain. But he is also a bringer of gifts, delivering presents and treats to children living in front-line areas. Image caption, Volodymyr is now a chaplain, who brings presents to children near Ukraine’s front linesSince before Russia’s full-scale invasion, he and his wife have fostered troubled children – those from broken families, and now those displaced by the war.When the war began, one of his former foster children, Andriy, wanted to go back to his home village to care for his mother, an alcoholic with whom he’d had a troubled relationship. Volodymyr shows me a black-and-white photograph taken by Andriy at a family dinner before the war. Chechen forces under the command of top Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov had taken over the village.”[Although an alcoholic] she was still his mother. And he went and created a small militia in this village in order to stop the Chechens, Kadyrov’s people who began entering there. And unfortunately they found out after some time. They shot him and they threw him dead in a field,” he says.Image source, AndriyImage caption, Andriy was killed by Russians at the age of just 25On this journey Volodymyr is heading 816km south to Kryvyi Rih, and from there another three hours by road with his friend Oleksandr to Kherson, a city re-taken from the Russians in November 2022. Together they will distribute gifts in front-line villages.Accompanied by a BBC cameraman, they stop at a windswept bus stop in the countryside, where a group of around 20 mothers and children has gathered. There is danger from Russian shelling. The war can come crashing down at any time. Yet people cling to their homes. If you leave, when do you return? Do you ever return? One of the mothers, Larysa Shkliar, organises the meetings with Volodymyr and Oleksandr. She adamantly refuses to leave or to send her children away.”Someone made a law, that we must evacuate the children, as our village is in red zone,” Larysa says. “But when I ask them, ‘Are you going to be responsible for my children, if I do it?’ They say no.”I did not evacuate mine. I am their mother, and responsible for them. When Oleksandr and Volodymyr come it’s like a celebration for us and the kids.”A girl of around 10 years of age, Lera Verizon, comes forward. Volodymyr hands her a parcel. She starts to explain what happened when the Russians attacked her school. “There were three air strikes at us. We didn’t know what to do. I was scared. The window was blown out in the room where my sister was.” As she says the last words Lera begins to cry. She turns into the embrace of her mother Ola who strokes her head. “There bunny, there. It will be OK,” she says.Volodymyr must leave. There are other villages to reach before nightfall and much work still to do.”You know, I have stopped trying to understand this war long ago. It takes away the whole life and even takes away the purpose of it, so it takes away the most important time that a child can experience,” Volodymyr says. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaAfcon: Ivory Coast football fans flock to see Abidjan victory paradePublished1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Ian Williams/ BBCImage caption, Fans dance in the street as they celebrate the Elephants’ third Afcon winBy Ian Williams & Ameer AhmedBBC News, AbidjanThousands of football fans wearing orange and white have flooded the streets of Abidjan to see the Ivory Coast team parade the Africa Cup of Nations trophy they won on Sunday.The hosts defeated Nigeria 2-1 to win Afcon for a third time, prompting huge celebrations across the country.Cecilia, who was born in Ivory Coast but now lives in the US, told the BBC she had travelled home for the final.”That’s the best decision of my life,” she said.Image source, Ameer Ahmed/ BBCImage caption, A football fan awaits the arrival of the national team in AbidjanIvory Coast were unlikely winners. They lost two group games and fired their manager mid-tournament. Emerse Fae, a youth-team manager, took over for his first job leading a senior team. Four games later, he was lifting a trophy. Juliette Youan told the BBC: “Emerse Fae is a hero of Ivory Coast.””We are so proud to celebrate our hero. Vive Emerse! Emerse is the best coach,” she added. Ms Youan and her friends made special T-shirts to commemorate Fae for leading the country to victory.Image source, Ian Williams/ BBCImage caption, Footballs fans made T-shirts to celebrate coach Emerse FaeThe parade began at Hôtel Palmier and the crowd built slowly from around midday, becoming more boisterous as the parade’s scheduled start time approached.As numbers grew, so did the noise, with horns blaring and chants breaking out, accompanied by dancing. At around 15:00 GMT, the first players suddenly appeared on the flatbed truck that would take them on their journey through Abidjan to the over 30,0000 capacity Félix Houphouët Boigny stadium for a trophy presentation.The banners on the truck announced the Elephants as “Champions of Africa 2023″ and featured three stars, a nod to the fact that the team has now won this competition on three occasions.Their underdog story resonated throughout the streets as people danced, rejoicing in their amazing comeback.”It’s amazing. The first part of the tournament was very difficult but afterwards the players played very well and today we are very happy. Today we have to do some parties, it’s obligatory,” said Kwaku, another fan at the parade.Image source, Ian Williams/ BBCImage caption, Ivory Coast players celebrating their victoryLooking relaxed in short-sleeved training tops, sunglasses, baseball caps and with gold medals around their necks, the players smiled out at the adoring crowds, leaning against the barrier, taking selfies and waving the Ivorian flag. At one point, captain Serge Aurier even helped lift a young fan onto the truck for a photo before handing him back to his waiting father.Image source, AFPImage caption, Ivory Coast won Afcon for a third timeIvory Coast’s tale of triumph was made even better as the goal that clinched the trophy for the team was scored by Sébastien Haller, who had been diagnosed with testicular cancer a few months ago.”We hoped to get to this point and once again the match wasn’t an easy one. The joyous scenes we see now, what’s happening in the country, they deserve it too. I really hope it does a lot of people good,” said Haller.”We are very, very proud of our three stars on our jersey. 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