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Article: 3 Countries Feel Hutu Rebels' Wrath; Refugees' Attacks on Tutsis Cost Lives, Threaten Stability in Rwanda, Burundi, Congo
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- The Washington Post
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- January 28, 1998
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Thirteen months after more than a million Rwandan Hutu
refugees walked home from camps in nearby countries, thousands of
Hutu extremists who refused to return are terrorizing Rwanda and its
central African neighbors.
In the past six months, militant members of the Hutu tribe,
which orchestrated the slaughter of more than 500,000 of Rwanda's
Tutsi ethnic minority in 1994, have infiltrated their homeland and
massacred an estimated 5,000 people in what have become near-daily
attacks.
These Hutus -- many of whom belonged to the militias and army
that carried out the 1994 genocide and fled the country that year
after a Tutsi-led rebel force halted the killing and seized power --
also ...