It has been exclusively revealed that the former voice of the people and paedo finders The News of the World tried to hack the phones of victims of the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
This startling revelation follows evidence which showed the newspaper tried to delete the voicemail messages of victims of this terrible tragedy.
News International argued that this phone hacking was essential in the search for truth and justice following the brutal genocide.
A spokesperson for News International said, "Hacking the phones of victims of the Rwandan genocide was in the public interest. We wanted to get to the bottom of whether they were actually victims of the Rwandan genocide or whether they had just left the country and started new lives in Britain, claiming extortionate benefits and living in five bedroom houses in Hampstead with their fourteen children."
An inside source has claimed that nothing came of the phone hacking, mainly because the victims of the Rwandan genocide had no phones to hack. However, they re-iterated that the victims were "fair game" because of the way they flaunted themselves to the cameras after the genocide.
A former journalist at the News of the World said, "They can't go up to the camera and speak to the media recalling the horrors of the genocide and then expect their phones not to be hacked. These people will seek attention from the media and love it, and will then complain when we intrude on their personal lives. It's just unbelievable behaviour!"
Rupert Murdoch has denied any knowledge of this latest phone hacking claim and has instead suggested that the person at the centre of the scandal was a work experience boy that worked at The News of the World during a two-week period in May 1995.
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