World IN BRIEF : BURUNDI : Rwandan Refugees Flee Ethnic Violence
From Times Wire Reports
About 15,000 Rwandans, who had fled to Burundi as ethnic slaughter erupted in their homeland in 1994, streamed out of a refugee camp to escape an outbreak of the same Hutu-Tutsi bloodshed in northern Burundi. About 10,000 of them had crossed into Tanzania by nightfall, said Hitoshi Misa of the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Tanzania had not decided whether to allow the Rwandans to stay.
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