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| #1 Posted on 16.8.04 0658.18 Reposted on: 16.8.11 0659.01 | Pathetic
Originally posted by Aloys Niyoyita in the 8/14/04 Guardian(AP) Dozens of attackers raided a U.N. refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting and hacking to death at least 180 people, witnesses and local officials said Saturday.
A Burundian Hutu rebel faction claimed responsibility for the attack late Friday near the Congolese border, saying its fighters were in pursuit of Burundian soldiers who fled to the camp from a nearby army position.
The assailants screamed war cries as they rushed into the camp and set it ablaze, local official Louis Niyonzima told The Associated Press.
The camp sheltered Congolese ethnic Tutsi refugees, known as the Banyamulenge, who fled fighting in Congo's troubled border province of South Kivu, Niyonzima said.
``What we have seen so far are many, many, many bodies of children, women and men,'' Eliana Nabaa, spokeswoman of the U.N. mission in Congo said. ``People were sleeping when the attack happened. People were killed as they tried to escape.''
``The scene is absolutely horrific. There are many people burnt,'' Nabaa said by telephone from Bukavu, capital of South Kivu. She said the attackers were well armed and organized.
For god's sake, I don't even know where to start. The United Nations cannot even protect refugees from slaughter and devestation? This is how the United Nations wants to protect ethnic groups from genocide?
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