FAR/Interahamwe

203. After the capture of Bukavu by the AFDL/APR troops and the destruction of the
refugee camps north of the town, the survivors fled in the direction of North Kivu. They
either passed through Kahuzi-Biega National Park (towards Bunyakiri/Hombo) or
Nyabibwe, on the Goma road. However, the refugees who travelled via Nyabibwe were
caught between AFDL/APR troops arriving from Goma and Bukavu, and did not reach
North Kivu.

• Towards mid-November 1996, ex-FAR/Interahamwe units killed an unknown
  number of refugees in Nyabibwe village. Most of the victims were sick, elderly or
  physically disabled people who no longer had the strength to escape. The ex-
  FAR/Interahamwe killed them by firing rockets at the house and the containers in
  which some of them were shut away. Others were burned alive when the vehicles
  they were in were set on fire. Some of these victims are alleged to have asked to
  be killed for fear of falling into the hands of the AFDL/APR. However, the
  Mapping Team was not able to confirm this claim.²¹⁰