Word: reprisalfrom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 to some 125,000 refugees and was the largest of the camps set up by the French last year. Assistant Secretary of State George Moose was dispatched to Rwanda today...
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