- Title: RWANDA: 300 HUTU REFUGEES FORCED TO RETURN TO THEIR VILLAGES
- Date: 29th April 1995
- Summary: NDERA, ENGENDA AND KIGALI, RWANDA (APRIL 29-30, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) NDERA (APRIL 30) 1. SV VARIOUS OF REFUGEES WALKING WITH BELONGINGS BY TRUCKS IN RAIN 0.18 2. SV LINE OF REFUGEES AT TRUCK 0.32 3. SV REFUGEES CLIMBING INTO TRUCK 0.43 4. SCU UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) SOLDIER WATCHING 0.48 5. SV REFUGEES WALKING TO
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- Location: NDERA, ENGENDA AND KIGALI, RWANDA
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- Country: Rwanda
- Reuters ID: LVAF5B0VATTBGQ3WGT1TR207HEBA
- Story Text: Up to 300 Hutu refugees were forced to return to their villages on Sunday (April 30), as camps they sought refuge in were closed by government troops.
The refugees waited at Ndera, about 15 kilometres (8 miles) outside the Rwandan capital Kigali, where they boarded trucks to be taken to Ngenda Camp.
Once at the camp, the Hutus were fed, given medical checks and supplies before being sent back to villages they fled after last year's massacre of Tutsis.
At Kibeho camp, about 1,000 survivors of the last weekend's massacre remain holded up in appalling conditions, refusing to move for fear of what may happen to them.
They include children and hardline Hutu adults accused by the government of taking part in last year's bloodletting.
In Kigali, United Nations (U.N.) envoy Aado Ajello, forced to cancel a trip to Kibeho because of rain, said he was very concerned for the plight of the refugees.
Ajello said the U.N. was trying to work with the Rwandan government but last weekend's massace would not encourage people return to their villages.
Meanwhile, villagers beat to death 14 Hutus who had returned home to southern Rwanda a year after a campaign of ethnic killing, U.N. officials said on Sunday.
Others were stripped and humiliated.
"They were stoned and beaten to death in the village of Huye, 100 others were forced to flee into the bush while women were subjected to indignities such as walking without their clothes," said Fernando del Mundo, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Del Mundo said the killings took place on Thursday.
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