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DATE=10/12/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=U-N - BURUNDI KILLING (L - ONLY) -- UPDATE
NUMBER=2-254935
BYLINE=MAX RUSTON
DATELINE=UNITED NATIONS
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  The United Nations says two of its 
humanitarian workers in Burundi were killed today 
(Tuesday) in an ambush in the southeastern part of 
that country.  V-O-A's U-N correspondent, Max Ruston, 
has the story.
TEXT:  U-N officials say the two U-N staff members 
were killed and two others were wounded at a refugee 
camp in Rutana province.  They say the workers were 
robbed by ethnic Hutu rebels shortly after their 
arrival at the camp on a routine assessment mission.  
The rebels then executed two of the U-N workers by 
shooting them in the head at close range.
U-N Spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva:
            /// de Almeida e Silva act ///
      Two internationally-recruited United Nations 
      staff members were killed in Burundi in a road 
      ambush.  One was identified as UNICEF 
      representative to Burundi Luis Zuniga of Chile.  
      The second U-N staff member, from the World Food 
      Program, has not been identified pending 
      notification of next of kin.  Two other U-N 
      staff from U-N-D-P and U-N-H-C-R were slightly 
      injured.
/// end act ///
The two workers wounded in the incident are employed 
by the U-N Development Program and the U-N High 
Commissioner for Refugees.
UNICEF director Carol Bellamy described the killings 
as a terrible tragedy.  World Food Program chief 
Catherine Bertini described them as senseless.  She 
said 12 World Food Program staff members were killed 
in the line of duty last year, representing an outrage 
that cannot be sustained.
The killings brought to three the number of U-N staff 
workers killed on Tuesday.  Earlier in the day a 38-
year-old Bulgarian national, employed by the U-N 
Mission in Kosovo, was killed on his first day of work 
in Pristina.
U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan has repeatedly 
expressed concern about the dangers facing U-N 
humanitarian workers.  He has called for more 
international support to ensure better protection for 
U-N staff members working under dangerous conditions. 
(Signed)
NEB/UN/MPR/LSF/JP
12-Oct-1999 15:53 PM EDT (12-Oct-1999 1953 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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