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Article: Rwandan Rebels Seal Border // Refugees Still Flee Into Tanzania Camp
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
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NAIROBI, Kenya Relief officials in Tanzania struggled Saturday to
cope with the sudden influx of 250,000 Rwandan refugees, as Rwandan
rebels reportedly closed the border crossing, preventing possibly
hundreds of thousands more from fleeing the country's ethnic
violence.
With the reported border sealing by guerrillas of the Rwandan
Patriotic Front, Friday's exodus of a quarter-million people slowed
to a trickle, but by nightfall, tired and destitute refugees were
still showing up at a United Nations refugee camp at Ngara, Tanzania,
about 10 miles from the border.
The refugee surge came after Rwandan army border guards fled
their positions in the face of a rebel attack. Relief officials ...