The Associated Press reports dozens of attackers raided a U.N. refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting and hacking to death at least 180 people. A Burundian Hutu rebel faction claimed responsibility for the attack late Friday near the Congolese border, saying its fighters were in pursuit of Burundian soldiers who fled to the camp from a nearby army position. The assailants screamed war cries as they rushed into the camp and set it ablaze. The camp sheltered Congolese ethnic Tutsi refugees, known as the Banyamulenge, who fled fighting in Congo's troubled border province of South Kivu.
"What we have seen so far are many, many, many bodies of children, women and men," Eliana Nabaa, spokeswoman of the U.N. mission in Congo said. "People were sleeping when the attack happened. People were killed as they tried to escape."
Is it not time we took a real stand against human rights abuses in Africa?
Saturday, August 14, 2004
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Any time would be a good time to start helping out Africa. My only question is why is this news this time? It's not like things have been different for the past ten or twenty years.
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