World IN BRIEF : RWANDA : Last Hutu Refugees Leave Squalid Camp

The last 300 Hutu refugees left the Kibeho camp in southwest Rwanda, three weeks after a massacre by troops attempting to shut down the camp. Since the massacre, in which U.N. observers say at least 2,000 people died, the camp has been a health disaster. Refugees were living on top of garbage and their own waste, denied access to food or clean water and suffering from dysentery and other diseases. The Kibeho camp had been the last bastion of displaced Hutus who fled as a Tutsi-dominated rebel army took over the country last year and ended a three-month reign of terror by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi minority. The camp inhabitants had said they were afraid to leave because they feared reprisal attacks by the new government.