Amnesty International reports that hundreds of people have been killed or disappeared in Burundi. and thousands of Hutus have fled their villages to seek refuge in Zaire and elsewhere. Some are being held hostage in their own villages. surrounded by hostile armed youths and cut off from outside contract. Rwandan refugees who sought refuge in Burundi last year are now beginning to flee to Zaire and Tanzania out of fear that similar terror will prevail in the refugee camps. The latest round of violence comes on the heels of the assassination in early March of the Minister for Mines and Energy. Ernest Kabushemeye. a Hutu leader. and the discovery of the dismembered body of a retired Tutsi army officer.
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