Aid team quits Rwandan refugee camp
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He said about 5,000 people - many armed with machetes, knives and sticks - invaded the UN compound, trying to prevent officials from kicking out a former Rwandan mayor suspected of being involved in massacres. The relief workers remained in the nearby town of Ngara, some 30 miles (50km) from the camp.
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