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Evening News Bulletin:Two Rwandans once accused of tourist murder reportedly resettled in Australia

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Australia reportedly accepted two Rwandan men who spent 15 years in US detention after a murder case against them collapsed.


Prime Minister Scott Morrison says all refugees transferred to Australia have passed character checks after US media reported two Rwandan men accused of brutally murdering eight tourists were secretly resettled in the country last year.  

US political media outlet Politico reports that Australia accepted two Rwandan men suspected of the 1999 tourist murders in Uganda, under a 2016 refugee swap deal struck by the Coalition government and the US.

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