71.   In New York, Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council to pressure Zairian rebels to accept a cease-fire.

72.   In October, Zairian rebels raided the camps, driving the refugees west and freeing them of militia control.

73.   It took attacks by Zairian rebels against the well-armed and organized former Hutu government soldiers and militiamen who had kept a tight grip on them.

74.   Kemp noted, though, that Zairian rebels were cooperating with conservationists to help protect animals.

75.   Last year, Rwanda aided Zairian rebels who attacked the refugee camps and forced the refugees to stream back across the border in Rwanda.

76.   Late last year, Zairian rebels attacked all the camps along the border, scattering the refugees.

77.   Locals and Zairian rebel officials immediately blamed Rwandans from nearby refugee camps.

78.   Local Zairians have also suffered from the fighting between the Zairian rebels and Rwandan Hutu militias.

79.   Meanwhile a U.N. team of human rights experts protested to Zairian rebels for blocking their attempts to investigate reports of massacres by rebel forces.

80.   Moreover, he said, the Zairian rebels were preoccupied with their own struggle against Mobutu rather than the humanitarian relief effort.