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BRUSSELS, April 7 (Reuter) - Elite troops of late Rwandan President
Juvenal Habyarimana have captured at least one government minister and
are hunting down more, Belgian news agency Belga said on Thursday.
Belga said the head of Rwanda's Liberal Party, a Tutsi, was among
ministers seized by the military after Habyarimana and Burundi
President Cyprien Ntaryamira, were killed in a rocket attack on their
plane as they flew back from regional peace talks on Wednesday.
Belga said an attempt to arrest Prime Minister Agatha Uwilingiyimana
had failed after other soldiers intervened to prevent her being taken
away by the elite presidential guard.
A very well informed source (in Kigali) said that lists are being
circulated of those people hunted by the elite troops,
Belga reported.
Professor Filip Reyntjens, an expert in Central African affairs at
Antwerp University, said his sources in Kigali told him that military
troops had arrested several leading Tutsis. Both of the presidents
belonged to the Hutu tribe.
Reyntjens told Reuters that Charles Shamukiga, a Tutsi businessman and
honorary consul in Luxembourg, was among those arrested by troops in
Kigali. Some arrests are underway...there has been a big clampdown on
human rights activists who feel very threatened by what has happened,
Reyntjens said.
(c) Reuters Limited 1994
