Zaire Rebel Abduction of Rwandan Children Told
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GENEVA — Zairian rebels who abducted 52 sick Rwandan Hutu refugee children from a hospital kept them in a container van without food or water and beat some before releasing them five days later, U.N. agencies said Friday.
The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said it had asked the Tutsi-dominated rebels, who face growing charges of human rights abuses and violence against the refugees, to explain the abduction and mistreatment.
U.N. refugee agency spokesman Fernando del Mundo said the rebels released the children Wednesday in Bukavu in eastern Zaire. They have been repatriated.
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