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Reports from Rwanda say another 10 people have been killed in the latest upsurge of violence in the central and northern regions of the country. The authorities have Hutu extremists for the attacks. They say more than a hundred people have been killed in the past week. The attacks coincided with events organised last week by the authorities to mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the genocide in 1994, in which up to 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed. Chris Simpson reports from Kigali:
Rwanda's official period of mourning may be over but the killing is continuing on a daily basis. The past week has seen a spate of attacks and confrontations. The authorities here are making it clear that responsibility once again lies with the Interahamwe militias, the main perpetrators of the genocide of 1994.
The Interahamwe have no recognised political structures or clear platform. But their recent activity in both the northern region of Ruhengeri and in Gitarama, further south, just 50 kilometres west of Kigali, bears disturbing echoes of what happened four years ago. The emphasis is on soft targets - displaced communities in camps, schools and communal prisons housing genocide suspects.
Survivors of the attacks say the killing is selective. Witnesses of the genocide of 1994 are singled out for elimination, while Hutus seen as collaborating with the new administration are at risk.
Interahamwe tracts found in the north-west suggest the anti-Tutsi ideology is as virulent as ever. Monitoring the violence is not easy.
Rwanda is a small country and news inevitably travels quite fast, but details of individual incidents can be confused and contradictory. Visiting Gitarama recently, the day after an attack, one found government soldiers loathe to give access to the site of the killings or information on what had actually taken place.
There was understandably a strong emphasis on security concerns. Security can be difficult to gauge. Roads which can appear perfectly safe one day will be off-limits the next - the scene of an ambush by militiamen or a fire-fight between militia and government troops, whose details will only be made public considerably later.
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