31.   But UN officials have accused the Rwandan authorities of deliberately sabotaging the repatriation efforts and even encouraging Zairean rebels to massacre refugees or allow them to starve to death.

32.   But Zairean rebels stopped aid workers from going to find others, saying the routes were too dangerous.

33.   The refugees died primarily due to malnutrition which has affected thousands of displaced persons uprooted by fighting between Zairean rebels and government forces.

34.   The Rwandan Hutus are exhausted and hungry after trekking for months eastwards ahead of advancing Zairean rebels.

35.   The same day, the newspaper published comments from the chairman of the National Assembly calling on MPs to cease their constant references to the Zairean rebel leader.

36.   The radio station of the Zairean rebel movement announced on Saturday the fall of the strategic city of Kisangani.

37.   The United States urged Zairean rebel leader Laurent Kabila Friday to order his forces to stop their advance on Kinshasa and to negotiate a peaceful transfer of power.

38.   The US State Department on Tuesday called on Zairean rebels to open humanitarian corridors that would allow hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee the fighting into Rwanda.

39.   The WNBF was already reeling from the destruction of their camps inside eastern Zaire in February by a combination of advancing Zairean rebels and the Ugandan army.

40.   The Zairean rebel spokesman in Europe claimed this week former UNITA fighters were backing Mobutu.