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/ 16 August 2004

Survivors tell of Burundi massacre

Hundreds wandered silently through devastated alleyways at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi on Sunday, trying to make sense of a massacre of 159 men, women and children. Victims were shot, burned and hacked to death at the camp for Congolese Tutsis in the central African state of Burundi in an overnight attack on Friday.

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Burundi explodes into violence

By Beatrice Debut

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/ 14 August 2004

Burundi explodes into violence

The charred bodies of women and children lay heaped inside a dozen torched huts in the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi on Saturday, where nearly 159 people were killed in an overnight attack. The victims were shot, hacked to death with machetes or burnt inside their homes, during a raid on the camp near the capital Bujumbura.

By Beatrice Debut