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DATE=1/23/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=BURUNDI / REBELS (S-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-258338
BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS
DATELINE=NAIROBI
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  Burundi says rebels have killed at least 30 
civilians and destroyed more than one-thousand homes 
in an attack near the Tanzanian border.  As V-O-A's 
Scott Stearns reports, civilians fleeing ethnic 
violence have gone to camps inside Tanzania.
TEXT:  State-run radio Burundi says rebels attacked 
three districts in the eastern province of Rutana, 
where they killed civilians, stole livestock, and set 
fire to 16-hundred homes.
The radio did not say when this attack occurred.  
Civilians fleeing violence in southeast Burundi have 
crossed to camps in Tanzania, where there are already 
300-thousand refugees.  Burundi's military government 
says rebels are using those camps to launch cross-
border raids.
Ethnic-majority Hutu rebels are fighting an army led 
by the minority Tutsi.  That violence has killed more 
than 200-thousand people in the last six years.
Rebels have stepped-up their attacks over the last few 
weeks, mostly ambushing civilian vehicles on roads 
outside the capital.   (Signed)
NEB/SS/WTW
23-Jan-2000 05:00 AM EDT (23-Jan-2000 1000 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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