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BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - Burundi has forcibly repatriated 3,600 Rwandan refugees, putting them in trucks and transporting them out of the country, the United Nations and government officials said Monday.
Some of the deportees jumped from the trucks, breaking their limbs, trying to resist being sent back to Rwanda, witnesses said. Most of the Rwandans in Burundi are women and children who fled their homeland because of rumors of violence as community courts in Rwanda begin to try people accused of participating in the country's 1994 genocide of minority Tutsis.
Burundians have been fleeing into Rwanda to escape unrest as their own country seeks an end to its 11-year civil war between members of its own Hutu majority and Tutsi minority.
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