zaire / kadir van lohuizen
“In early 1997 Laurent Kabila, a rebel leader, was occupying the eastern part of Zaire at a rapid pace. Around Kisangani were big camps with the last group of approximately 80,000 Hutu refugees from Rwanda. They had been on the move for the last three years, searching for a safe place because of accusations that they had partly taken part in the genocide. This was also the point of view from Kabila, so his troops were attacking the camps. When the international community finally intervened and airlifted the refugees back to Rwanda, only 40,000 survived.”
