THE MASSACRE OF 300 THOUSANDS HUTU REFUGEE IN CONGO BY KAGAME IN CONGO.....When the RDF units appeared in October 1996 IN CONGO , their first act was to disperse and kill Rwandan HUTU refugees from camps in South Kivu province west of the city of Uvira on Lake Tanganyika. Among the main killing fields is Shabunda, where there are eye-witness accounts of Rwandan-led squads carrying out summary executions of Hutu men., hundreds of refugees were killed, mostly women and children, in a machine-gun attack on a camp in the village of Kasese. A bulldozer was used to bury the victims. Near Minova, South Kivu, a container was found stuffed with Hutus who were locked inside and suffocated. n North Kivu province several hundred Hutu refugees were killed at the Chimanga camp. At least eleven mass graves have been identified in the area. Around the city of Goma, at least 20 mass graves have been found. A local association charged with removing corpses along the main roads collected 6,537 cadavers in December 1996. The UN High Commission for Refugees reported 1,515 bodies collected at Kibumba camp and another 300 bodies at Katale camp in the same area. On 15-17 November 1996, the RDF” launched a pincer attack on the huge refugee camp of Mugunga, which at the time held an estimated 500,000, many of them having fled from camps to the south. As a result of the slaughter, a huge mass of hundreds of thousands fled to the east, reentering Rwanda.650,000 who did not go back to Rwanda. Eventually approximately 200,000 to 250,000 arrived at camps to the west, notably Tingi-Tingi on the road to Kisangani. In March and April, these makeshift camps were then brutally “cleared” of their hapless inhabitants. At Kasese, villagers whipped up by the rebel army tore into the Hutu refugees with spears and pangas (machetes), hacking and stabbing hundreds to death. By early May several thousand Rwandan Hutus made it west to the Congo River at Mbandaka across from the Congo Republic. But there RDF forces caught up with them. : “Moments after the rebels arrived on May 13 to the cheers of grateful townsfolk, the troops horrified the residents by systematically exterminating Rwandan Hutu refugees.... The troops shot and beat to death at least 550 Hutu men, women and children who were attempting to escape on a barge by the river....”
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