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Hutu rebels kill dozens in DRC

By David Lewis

Kinshasa - Rwandan Hutu guerrillas killed up to 19 people and looted homes in an attack on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Congolese officials said on Monday, as fears grew of renewed conflict in Africa's Great Lakes region.

Uvira district administrator Medard Majaribu Mufumbe said the raid showed the guerrillas, known as the Interahamwe, were operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Uvira and South Kivu districts in large numbers.

The Interahamwe fled Rwanda after their involvement in the 1994 genocide, and an estimated 10 000 still live in the Congolese forests and mount sporadic raids in Rwanda.

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