NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that today is the deadline Tanzania had given Rwandan refugees to leave their camps and go home. Nearly all of the half-million Rwandans in Tanzania have done so. But relief officials estimate there are still at least two or three hundred thousand Rwandans stuck in a remote area of eastern Zaire, without access to sufficient food or medicine. These refugees apparently include many who perpetrated the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
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