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December 4, 2016PBS NewsHour full episode

Dec 4, 2016 6:59 PM EST

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On this edition for Sunday. Dec. 4, people mourn the death of Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro in the city of Santiago at his funeral. Later, a new documentary recounts how Rwanda was the first country to prosecute mass rape as a war crime in international court. Alison Stewart anchors from New York.

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