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Article: Ethnic Battles Flare Anew in Africa; In Tense Region, Bad Blood Between Zaire and Tutsis Boils Over
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- The Washington Post
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- October 26, 1996
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Eleazar Mudakikwa's parents and grandparents lived in Zaire. He
and his wife and children have lived there all their lives, and
until recently the 40-year-old pastor had thought they would
continue to call the huge central African country home.
Instead, the Zairian government has deported Mudakikwa and his
family, leaving them to struggle in a refugee camp in this border
town in southwestern Rwanda. Zaire says people such as Mudakikwa are
not Zairians because they belong to the Tutsi ethnic group, whose
forbears emigrated from Rwanda to Zaire some 200 years ago. So for
over a year, the Zairian government has carried out a massive
campaign to expel the more than 300,000 Tutsis who live ...