Relief Mission Ends

Sat., Dec. 14, 1996

Canada decided Friday to cut short the multinational relief operation planned for eastern Zaire, saying the situation there had changed so much there was little need for it anymore.

The Canadians were leading a humanitarian mission, with American participation, to help hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus fleeing fighting between Zairian rebels and government forces in eastern Zaire. But 640,000 of the refugees went home before the U.N.-approved military mission could get started, and in recent days the refugee crisis has shifted to Tanzania, where there are about 535,000 Rwandan Hutu refugees.

Tanzania has given them until Dec. 31 to leave.

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