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BRUSSELS, April 9 (Reuter) - Rampaging soldiers have massacred Rwandans
in a Franciscan mission in the north of the country but spared
Westerners they found there, the charity Oxfam said on Saturday.
Oxfam's spokesman in Belgium, Eric Todts, told the Belga news agency
workers for the charity had taken refuge in the mission close to the
town of Gisenyi on Friday.
He said soldiers had then arrived and killed an unknown number of
Rwandans. Three women, from the United States, Britain and the
Netherlands, witnessed the massacre but were spared. They subsequently
escaped to Zaire.
Todts did not know whether the soldiers belonged to government or rebel
forces. Nuns, priests and aid workers have been among thousands of
victims of the fighting this week, which flared after Rwanda's
president was assassinated.
(c) Reuters Limited 1994
