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Show All The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday,April 27, 1997 Tens of Thousandsof Refugees Flee Rwandan Hutu Refu gees Intensified Fighting in Afghanistan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — Re*newed fighting in Afghanistan has senttens of thousandsof refugees te the capital and to the border with Tajikistan and Iran, aid workers and officials said Saturday. Anestimated 10,000 new refugees have arrived in Kabul this month, bringing to 150,000 the the Islamic militia repelled a major offensive on Friday by Dos- dan Hutus who survivedthelatest tum’s exodus from refugee camps in ing and medical supplies in the capital, Red Cross and U.N. officials said. Heavy fighting has erupted in northwestern Afghanistan’s Badghis province, eastern Nangarhar province and the Shomali : Valley north of Kabul. The Taliban religious army, which controls two-thirds of the country, is fighting a coalition led by northern warlord Rashid Dostum and the former government’s military chief, Ahmed Shah Masood. A Talibanofficial in Kabul said in Badghis, 360 ing Herat, a majorprize. Thousands of refugees have be- numberofvillagers fleeing fight- ing 90 miles to the north. The newarrivals have created a tremendous strain on food, hous- troops miles from thecapital. Taliban control of Badghis province would open up access to Dostum’s stronghold in Mazar-eSharif, 180 miles north of Kabul. For Dostum, control of Badghis province is a big step toward takgunarriving in Herat on Afghani- stan’s border with Iran, aid workers said at a news conference. “There have been waves of people moving into Herat from Bagdhis and there appears to have been another wavein recent days,” said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. As many as 100,000 Afghans Zairian villagers killed hundreds at one camp, where rebel troops also openedfire. Rebel leader Laurent Desire Kabila, meanwhile, arrived six hours late for a meeting with a ber could reach 1 million. /@lewwox IeaingAirConon 4 installed* . ¢ Financing Available s 4 ¥ e ¢ Includes standard installation High efficient system ¢ Clean quite economical New Mexico, Richardson gained renownas a diplomatic troucal prisoners, an American prisoner in North Korea and three international Red Cross workers detained in Sudan. Rwandan Hutu refugees. Aid workers have found only a few hundredof the refugees who they were disturbingly empty — have vanished since rebel troops considering they held thousands sealedoff the area south of Kisan- of refugees who had been too gani on Monday. They want access weak to walk and were dying at a what happened to the refugees. 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