Ethnic Violence Grips Eastern Congo; Fearing New War, Thousands of Tutsis Flee to Rwanda

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 10, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Banamwana Mpimuye and his seven children stood forlorn on a roadside, part of a band of 30 ethnic Tutsi farmers driven out of the hills near Masisi about 35 miles northwest of here. With fresh gashes on their bodies that they said came from attackers, the group told of hiding in the forest for a week, then hitching a ride on a truck that brought them to this border town.

Banamwana is among thousands of people who have been displaced violently in this war-torn region recently, as bitter ethnic violence -- tamped down after new Congo leader Laurent Kabila seized control of the country ...

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