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Article: HUTU REBELS IN BURUNDI ATTACK; 150 VILLAGERS SLAIN.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 2, 1998
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A 1,000-strong band of Hutu rebels attacked an army base outside the capital of Tutsi-ruled Burundi yesterday, launching an hours-long battle that killed at least 150 civilians.
Thirty rebels and two soldiers also died, Lt. Col. Mamert Sinrinzi told Burundian radio.
Burundi's Hutu majority and minority Tutsi-led military government have been locked in warfare for more than four years, ever since Tutsi paratroopers killed the Central African nation's first Hutu president.
The conflict has killed at least 150,000 since then, mostly civilians.
Yesterday, Hutu rebels attacked a base outside Bujumbura, near Burundi's main airport. The army ...