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Article: 231 TUTSIS MASSACRED IN ATTACK IN RWANDA HUTU REBELS BLAMED IN RENEWAL OF VIOLENCE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 12, 1997
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Assailants thought to be Hutu rebels raided a Tutsi refugee camp in northwestern Rwanda yesterday, slaughtering more than 200 people and wounding almost as many, the U.N. refugee agency said.
Some 231 bodies were found in the camp, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees office in New York. Another 227 people were hospitalized in Gisenyi, about 60 miles northwest of Kigali. About 90 percent of them had machete wounds, the agency said.
It was the second attack on Mudende camp since one in August, when more than 100 refugees were hacked or shot dead during a raid blamed on Hutu rebels.
The refugees had fled the Masisi region of ...