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Butare

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Butare

Town in southern Rwanda, near the border with Burundi, 80 km/50 mi south of Kigale; population (2002) 77,400. The town is an important trade centre for the south of the country and also serves as a petroleum distribution centre. Local agriculture includes the raising of cattle and goats. Agricultural activities were severely disrupted by conflicts between Hutu and Tutsi tribal groups in the mid-1990s.



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Jean Baptiste Ndahulmbla, president of the local court in Butare town, said: "She was responsible for selecting Tutsis and would throw them off the hospital land so that the militia could kill them.
Catholic priest guilty of genocide by Catholic Insight
In the university town of Butare, I watch a group of twenty young women in traditional dress float in formation to the center of the floor, their arms raised like the delicate wings of birds, or the awesome curved horns of Acholi cattle.
Invisible again: Rwanda and representation after genocide by Mirzoeff, Nicholas / African Arts
Abasa: Recently established in the southern region of Butare, this organization attempts to bring widows and victims of sexual abuse together.
Genocide survivors still face an uncertain future by Pavon, Beatriz / UN Chronicle
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