Kabila to earnestly engage In a critical dialog on the future of Zaire. I urge them to put the lIterests of Zaire and their countrymen first. and resolve the current political crisis without further unnecessary loss of life. I have been deeply troubled by recent reports of widespread human rights abuses aud mass killings of refugees and displaced persons in rebelcontrolled Zaire. There are numerous accounts of desperately ill and malnourished women and children being Indiscriminately slaughtered and maimed. Recently 55.00 refugees have Inexplicably disappeared from a refugee camp outside Kisangani. Of the refugees. some 9.000. Including 2.600 severely malnourished children. had only days earlier been deemed medically unfit to travel by visiting relief workers. After a week of repeatedly denying the United Nations to care for and repatriate refugees in rebelcontrolled territory. todays news reports Indicate the rebel Alliance is once again allowing the United Nations to care for the sick and the dying. Refusal to have given access to the United Nations over the past week. resulting In the maltreatment of refugees and displaced persons has been nothing short of deplorable. I call upon Mr. Kablila to put a permanent end to the bloodletting of innocents in Eastern Zaire. All impediments to humanitarian relief efforts in Zaire must be permanently removed. The United Nations must be permitted continued full access to these refugees and allowed to repatriate them to Rwanda without Interference. Furthermore. the slaughter of those refugees suspected of responsibility for the 1994 Rwandan genocide must cese. as It Is neither justifiable nor defensibic. These people must be returned to Rwanda where they can stand trial in an appropriate court of law and rightly be held accountable for their crimes. It is time for President Mobutu and Mr.
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