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Home > Burundi/DRC: In wake of refugee massacre, Burundi agrees to UN request to set up secure camp

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Thursday, August 19, 2004 - 03:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
170 [3]
Article-Summary: 

As chilling new details emerged about the gruesome massacre of some 150 Congolese civilians at a refugee camp in Burundi on Friday, the United Nations refugee agency has reported that the country's Government has agreed to authorize a secure camp away from the border for newly arrived refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Category: 
Governance [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/23917 [5]
Country: 
Democratic Republic of Congo [6]

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