UN to hold emergency meeting over massacre

Updated: 09:10, Tuesday, 17 August 2004

The United Nations Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting tonight over the massacre of Congolese Tutsi refugees at a camp in Burundi.

The United Nations Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting tonight over the massacre of Congolese Tutsi refugees at a camp in Burundi. 

At least 156 people - mainly women and children - were killed in the raid.

The bloodbath at the camp saw refugees shot, burned and hacked to death in an attack blamed on a coalition of armed groups from Burundi and neighbouring countries.

The raid on the Gatumba camp was claimed by the Hutu National Liberation Forces, the only rebel group still fighting in Burundi, but there are charges that Hutu extremists from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda were also involved.

The Gatumba camp is mainly home to Congolese Tutsi refugees who fled clashes in May and June between armed forces in DR Congo's Sud-Kivu province which borders Burundi.

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