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Rwandan refugee involvement confirmed

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    Rwandans in Congo-Brazzaville have become involved in the latest fighting in the country, UNHCR said in its latest Great Lakes update, issued on Friday. It said a recent visit by UNHCR personnel to the Kintele refugee camp near Brazzaville confirmed that there were virtually no adult males left in the camp, whose remaining occupants said several hundred men had been armed and deployed by the Congolese armed forces. UNHCR also said about 300-400 Rwandans had left sites at Njoundou and Loukolela in northern Congo to join the fighting.

    The Congo-Brazzaville camps housed an estimated 11,000 Rwandan refugees who arrived mainly in May 1997. In early November 1998, UNHCR expressed concern that “significant numbers” of Rwandan men had left the camps in Congo-Brazzaville for the DRC.

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