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NBC News is under fire for its involvement with the government of Rwanda in an investigation of alleged war criminals and terrorists that is targeting a visiting professor of French who has been suspended from Goucher College in Towson, Md. 

Producers and a film crew were accompanied by a Rwandan prosecutor when they tried to interview Leopold Munyakazi in his classroom at the liberal arts college December 9.   They wanted to discuss charges that he participated in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.  He declined to be interviewed, but has since denied the allegations.  

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security, human rights activists and journalists have criticized NBC for the investigation and its plans to broadcast a program about its efforts. Some said that the program could interfere with the official investigation.   Others said there was insufficient evidence of human rights violations and questioned the journalistic ethics of the investigation.  

Munyakazi applied for asylum in 2004.  He was arrested for overstaying his visa and faces deportation.