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| | Great Lakes: IRIN Update 94, 2/5/97 |
 | | In an immediate response to the incident, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jose Ayala Lasso, ordered members of UN observer missions in the western Cyangugu, Gisenyi and Kibuye prefectures to withdraw to Kigali, while observers in the Gitarama, Gikongoro and Butare prefectures were told to remain at base. |
 | | Later, the UN announced that staff members were being temporarily withdrawn to Kigali from the four prefectures of Cyangugu, Ruhengeri, Gisenyi and Kibuye, and strict security measures were being implemented elsewhere in Rwanda. |
 | | Kibuye, Gisenyi, Ruhengeri and Cyangugu prefectures, which border Zaire, have become increasingly unstable since the mass return of Hutu refugees from Zaire and Tanzania at the end of last year. |
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