Refugee return from Tanzania complete.

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The last of more than half a million Rwandan refugees in the Republic of Tanzania have returned home, marking the end of one of the most dramatic exoduses in the history of Central Africa. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on 3 January said that the final group of 3,200 refugees had crossed the border.

In 1994, 535,000 had fled Rwanda as the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front assumed control, ending the mass killings by Hutu extremists that left over 800,000...

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