More than 300 Rwandan Hutus flee into Burundi from southern Rwanda
AFP reports more than 300 Rwandan Hutus flee into Burundi from southern Rwanda
Several hundred Rwandans have fled from the south of the country into neighbouring Burundi, Burundian local officials said Wednesday.
“More than 300 Rwandan Hutus have fled the southern province and have taken refuge in Bugabira and Ntega in Kirundo province,” said a local official who asked not to be named.
“These people keep arriving every day in small groups and they are staying with local people,” the same source told AFP.
Kirundo Governor Juvenal Muvunyi confirmed the news.
“These Rwandan Hutus say they are fleeing Rwanda because they are afraid… They say that at night people are abducted from the hills where they live then are killed and thrown into the Kanyaru river” on the Rwanda-Burundi border, he said.
“For their part the Rwandan authorities say these people are fleeing the gacaca courts,” he added.
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