This report summarizes the findings of an Amnesty International visit to Rwanda in November 1996, and presents an overview of the risk of human rights violations facing returnees to Rwanda. In November and December 1996 hundreds of thousands of refugees returned to Rwanda, driven from Zaire by the...

The 53rd session of the UN Commission on Human Rights will meet from 10 March to 18 April 1997. This document describes Amnesty International’s concerns which the organization will raise as a matter of priority in the forthcoming session. This year AI is calling on the Commission to act in...

This report highlights the belief of Amnesty International that gross human rights abuses were committed in South-Kivu from September to November 1996 by Zairian soldiers, civilian militias and the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL). It fears that similar abuses...

Over 130,000 of the more than 500,000 refugees in Tanzania are now reported to have returned to Rwanda after their forcible expulsion from Tanzania. Hundreds of thousands more are expected to cross the border in the next few days. There remains concern for around 100,000 other refugees who have...

Following the statement issued by the Tanzanian Government and the UNHCR that all Rwandese refugees in Tanzania were expected to return home by 31 December 1996, thousands of refugees have reportedly fled from the refugee camps. There is grave concern that these refugees have fled to areas of the...

Nguyen Thi Viet Nhan alias Ngoc Anh, Vuong Thi Vieng alias Xuyen, (Chiem) Kiem Dung alias Hoa, Tran Thi Loan alias Nhat Lang, Le Van Tinh alias Huynh Van Chinh, Nguyen Bao Giang alias Lam Son, Ly Hoang Thanh Hung alias La Tam, Le Dong Phuong alias Le Hoang Dung, Nguyen Huu Tri, Nguyen Cong...

The Tanzanian Government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees have issued a joint statement in which the Government of Tanzania states that all Rwandese refugees can now return to their country in safety and that they are expected to return home by 31 December 1996. Amnesty...

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This report focuses specifically on human rights abuses by the Taleban, a relatively new force in this tragic conflict, which now controls about two thirds of Afghanistan’s territory and the seat and mechanisms of government in the capital Kabul. Since the emergence of the Taleban as a military and...

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Zaire is currently undergoing political transition from a single party to a multi-party political system; elections are scheduled for 1997. The current political climate is fragile and tension could erupt into conflict in other parts of the country. Although this report is relevant to the whole...