Several thousand people have died in western Rwanda in recent months, including staff working for the refugee agency and private relief groups.

Those massacred were thought to be Tutsi who had fled into western Rwanda from the eastern Congo.

He was accused of standing by in western Rwanda as his parishioners were killed.

In an orphanage in western Rwanda, four teen-age rape victims who are orphans themselves have decided to keep their babies.

Also about 75 local officials who cooperated with the current Government have been assassinated, almost all of them in western Rwanda.

They had continued sowing terror and insecurity in western Rwanda with cross-border raids.

Bwakira is a former commune in western Rwanda.

Bugarama is a town in western Rwanda.

There are many mountains in central and western Rwanda.

The fighting in western Rwanda has only grown since Mr. Kabila took power, though.