Word: kibeho
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...Rwanda, Hutu continued to return to their home villages from refugee camps-including Kibeho, where an estimated 2,000 were slain on April 22, most of them by Rwandan army soldiers from the Tutsi ethnic group. The violence erupted when the army began dispersing the Hutu refugees-some of whom were involved in the slaughter of more than 500,000 Tutsi and some Hutu last year-from several camps in southwestern Rwanda. About 2 million Hutu remain refugees in neighboring countries...
...scene reminiscent of the Alamo, 600armed Hutu refugeesremain holed up in a small church in Kibeho, vowing to fight to the death rather than surrender to government soldiers. Across the small country, government soldiers are trying to round up more than 2 million refugees and force them to return to their villages. That effort turned to horror over the weekend when at least 2,000 Hutus were killed at Kibeho when soldiers fired automatic weapons and mortars into their crowded camp. Today, anestimated 60,000 refugees were camped around Butare, a town 20 miles east of the refugee camp...
...estimated 2,000 died in Rwanda when government soldiers opened fire on a refugee camp. Some were felled by bullets and mortar fire, but many were trampled in the ensuing panic. Tens of thousands of refugees fled the camp in Kibeho toward the provincial capital of Butare. Another 600, some armed with rifles and grenades, holed up in a church and vowed to die before surrendering to government troops. The group is apparently made up ofhard-line Hutus fearing reprisalfrom the Tutsi-led government army forlast year's killing of 500,000 Rwandans, most of them Tutsis. Kibeho was home...
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