21.   Millions of Hutus fled the advance of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front that swept to power in July, fearing reprisals.

22.   Several hundred thousand people who fled RPF advances in July are still crammed into refugee camps inside the zone.

23.   The Hutu refugees, many of them emaciated and ill, have been fleeing the advance of the rebels, who include many Tutsis, since October last year.

24.   The rebels are alleged to have committed a series of massacres of Rwandan Hutus who fled their advance earlier this year.