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Article: Rwanda says Congo still aiding Rwandan Hutu fighters implicated in slaughter of Tutsis

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Dateline: UNITED NATIONS Rwanda will not withdraw its troops from Congo until that country stops supporting Rwandan Hutu fighters implicated in the 1994 slaughter of Tutsis, Rwanda's ambassador said Thursday.

The threat puts at risk a peace agreement signed between the two nations last month.

The Rwandan Hutu soldiers fled to the eastern Congo after the genocide in which at least 500,000 people were killed, most of them Tutsis. The Rwandan Hutus have used the Congo as a base for attacks on Rwanda.

War broke out in Congo in August 1998 when Rwanda and Uganda backed Congolese rebels seeking to oust then-President Laurent Kabila, accusing him of supporting rebels who ...

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