According to several neighborhood leaders, including Jean-Manno Paul with Regroupment des Victims de 12 Janvier (Network of Victims of January 12), the school director kept the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontières from providing services.
The agreements, however, did provide for two "regroupment zones" in provinces adjacent to what was then North Vietnam to allow the Pathet Lao forces to assemble.
(Agence France-Presse) BURUNDI: CAMPS SHUT Authorities have finished dismantling 30 "regroupment camps" into which 350,000 civilians were moved last year, according to the governor of Bujumbura Rural Province.
Under pressure from Beijing and Moscow, the Vietminh agreed to a cease-fire and to the division of the country into two regroupment zones at the 17th parallel.
But the leaders of Burundi's military government prefer to call the strikingly bleak places pictured in these pages "regroupment" camps, a phrase that makes them sound almost sensible.
They said the army had killed the people near the town of Ruyigi because they had refused to move into a temporary "regroupment" camp as the Tutsi-dominated army searched for ethnic Hutu rebels.
The war has sharply escalated in recent months, and the Burundi government has herded 300,000 people, mostly poor Hutu farmers, into "regroupment camps" in the hills surrounding the capital, Bujumbura.
Government officials said today that they were completing the shutdown of one of 11 so-called regroupment camps that had been set up around Bujumbura, the capital, a move demanded by the international aid groups and the United Nations.
The process consists firstly of regroupment, where fighters are disarmed.
For the Khmer Rouge, who still lacked assistance from the North Vietnamese, it was a period of regroupment, organization, and training.
