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NEWS/ The Charlotte Post
Thursday, May 8,1997
U.N. ends transport of Rwandan refugees
By Hrvoje Hranjski
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KISANGANI, Zaire - The
United Nations said this week
it has stopped using a railway
to transport thousands of
Rwandan refugees out of the
jungle, one day after 91 people
suffocated or were trampled to
death in packed boxcars.
“We suspended the train
operation until we can control
an organized, orderly move
ment of people,” said Paul
Stromberg, a spokesman for
the U.N. High Commissioner
for Refugees. “We cannot con
tinue like this.”
In Washington, the head of
the U.N. agency, Sadako
Ogata, said: “We will not
agree to further use of the
train until clear control proce
dures are established.”
She added that despite the
tenuous political situation in
Rwanda, returning the
refugees home was the “least
worse option” because the
“refugees are better off there
than where they are now...in
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grams are available every
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Nationally, America’s 7.1
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total insecurity.”
The 78-mile railway is the
only efficient way to transport
the Rwandans to Kisangani
for an airlift home.
The U.N. agency had been
using the rdilway to evacuate
refugees from a squalid camp
in Biaro, 25 miles to the
south, since late April, when
rebel leader Laurent Kabila
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The United Nations evacuated 2,600 Rwandan refugees Monday from Kisangani to Rwanda for
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