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More Tutsi internees flown out

    NAIROBI
    ICRC on Sunday evacuated another 109 civilian internees from Kinshasa to Kigali via Nairobi, an ICRC spokesman in Geneva told IRIN on Monday. Most of the evacuated internees - part of the estimated 1,000-2,000 ethnic Tutsis rounded up by the authorities in Kinshasa and Katanga province at the start of the conflict in August - were Congolese and the remainder were Rwandan nationals. ICRC evacuated 366 internees from Katanga to Kigali and another 12 to Bujumbura on 27-28 June, while the 109 evacuated on Sunday had been interned in Kinshasa, the spokesman said. There were "no other planned rotations for the coming days," he added.

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