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Article: PEACE MOVE IN ZAIRE-BUT MOBUTU IS ACCUSED OF MASSACRE PLAN.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 18, 1997
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Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila have agreed in principle to peace talks in South Africa, an international mediator said yesterday.
But in a statement that could cause panic in Zaire's capital, the rebels late yesterday accused Mobutu of ordering the massacre of expatriates in Kinshasa to provoke foreign intervention and avert his downfall.
``Mobutu and his team have charged his SARM (military intelligence) and DSP (presidential guard) to kill all the expatriates who live in Kinshasa,'' Kabila's finance minister, Mwana Nanga Mawanpanga, told reporters in Lubumbashi, the rebel-held mining capital.
``In this way, ...