World IN BRIEF : ZAIRE : Hutus Kill 12 Tutsis Hiding in Church

Hutus armed with machetes hunted down hundreds of Tutsis who sought refuge in a church in Zaire and slaughtered at least 12 of them, a U.N. official said. More than 100 other Tutsis hiding in the church were missing. At least 600 Tutsis had fled armed Hutu mobs to Kichanga, near Zaire’s border with Rwanda, said Paul Stromberg, spokesman for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The attack on the church was reminiscent of the 1994 massacres of up to 800,000 people, most of them Tutsis, in Rwanda. Zairian Tutsis who have fled to Rwanda say Rwandan Hutu refugees have joined with Zairian Hutus to create a “Hutuland” by forcing other ethnic groups out of eastern Zaire.