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Article: Rwanda Hutu Militias Won't Go Home
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- July 24, 2002
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) _ Thousands of Hutu fighters from Rwanda who
are fighting for the central government in neighboring Congo will
defy a peace agreement that calls for them to return home, a spokesman
said Wednesday.
The Hutus are suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide and fear charges
could be brought against them if they return home. Most of the Hutu
fighters fled to Congo after the mass slaughter of a half-million
Rwandans, most of them members of Rwanda's Tutsi minority.
"We are ready to face justice, but we do not trust the Rwandan justice,
" militia spokesman Christophe Hakizabera told The Associated Press
in Kinshasa.
The exiles have ...