Rwanda


GENEVA - On Nov. 14, 1996, armed men surrounded the Mugunga refugee camp in eastern Zaire and began shooting indiscriminately at its inhabitants as they huddled for safety or tried to flee.

GENEVA - The U.N.'s top human rights official says a report detailing gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo will be released unchanged Friday despite Rwanda's angry protests over the findings.

JOHANNESBURG - A justice department spokesman says South Africa has received an extradition request from Spain for a Rwandan general already at the center of tensions between the two African countries.

KIGALI, Rwanda - French investigators said Monday they will try to find out who shot down the plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi in 1994, sparking the Rwandan genocide that killed more than half a million people.

GENEVA - The U.N.'s top human rights official says the release of a report accusing the Rwandan army of possible genocide in Congo in the 1990s will be delayed, after Rwanda angrily protested the findings in a draft version.
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