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DATE=10/2/96 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-34556 TITLE=ZAIRE/ REPATRIATION BYLINE=WILLIAM EAGLE DATELINE=WASHINGTON EDITOR= CONTENTINTRO: IN RECENT WEEKS, CENTRAL AFRICA'S REFUGEES CAMPS HAVE AGAIN BECOME HEADLINE NEWS. THE GOVERNMENTS OF RWANDA AND BURUNDI SAY THEY'RE BREEDING GROUNDS FOR ETHNIC HUTU INFILTRATORS TRYING TO TOPPLE THEIR TUTSI-LED GOVERNMENTS. THERE ARE OVER…

By Kirpatrick J. Day and Paula J. Ghedini UVIRA, ZAIRE -- More than two years after the Rwandan genocide, the Great Lakes region of Africa is still a morass of instability. Here in Uvira, home to almost 220,000 Rwandan and…

Amnesty International strongly condemns the atrocities committed over the past mo nth by the Zairian security forces and government officials against members of the Banyamule nge Tutsi ethnic group in South-Kivu region. The organization urgently appeals to Zairian Prime Minister, Leon…

NAIROBI, Sept 24 (Reuter) - U.N. agencies started evacuating non-essential staff from the eastern Zairean town of Bukavu on Tuesday following heavy exchanges of gunfire overnight between the Rwandan army and Zairean forces. Brenda Barton, a spokeswoman for the U.N. World…

KIGALI, Sept 23 (Reuter) - A group of aid workers left the eastern Zairean town of Bukavu by air on Monday because of heavy firing that Rwanda said Zairean troops started by shelling southwestern Rwanda. The International Federation of Red Cross…

Briefer: Christiane Berthiaume Zaire Bukavu and Uvira report that everything is quiet. There has not been any movement of Banyamulengwe -- longtime residents in Zaire of Rwandan Tutsi origin -- in the South Kivu region toward Rwanda. Kigali says…

SECRETARY-GENERAL REJECTS ALLEGATIONS BY GOVERNMENT OF ZAIRE AGAINST UNHCR The following was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The Secretary-General has learned with deep concern about accusations made by the Government of Zaire that…

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fifty-fourth session Item 10 of the provisional agenda Question of the Violation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in any Part of the World, with Particular Reference to Colonial and Other Dependent Countries and TerritoriesReport…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Zairean troops beat up two U.N. staffers after television reports claimed that U.N. agencies were helping armed Rwandan soldiers infiltrate the country, U.N. sources said Monday. U.N. officials denied the Zairian television report, broadcast last weekend, and…

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- A bus full of relief workers hit a land mine as it traveled to a camp for Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire, killing two people and injuring 34, relief groups said Sunday. The victims of the…