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Article: Guide to the Zaire crisis: Why we are sending thousands of soldiers to help save the refugees
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 16, 1996
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The multinational intervention force due to be dispatched to
eastern Zaire in the coming days will have two principal
objectives. The first will be to establish a security presence in
the region of conflict so that humanitarian aid can be distributed
to hundreds of thousands of refugees and civilians displaced by
fighting. The second aim will be to ensure the continued flow of
refugees returning home to Rwanda.
The unexpected exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan
refugees from Mugunga, until yesterday the only refugee camp
remaining open in eastern Zaire, will make the job of the aid
organisations and of the intervention force considerably easier.
The refugees have themselves opened up ...