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Asylum massacre

Kigali - Hutu soldiers and death squads killed almost all the 750 mentally handicapped patients in Rwanda's main psychiatric hospital during the slaughter prior to the government's overthrow in July, aid workers said this weekend. Details of the massacre in April, after the assassination of President Juvenal Habyaramina plunged the country into an orgy of bloodshed, are only now coming to light, the Red Cross said. Reuter

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