The Kurdish rebels, the PKK, withdraw from southern Turkey to help the relief effort and send out signals that they are ready to become a political movement if the Turkish Government will offer Kurdish people greater rights. Amnesty International sends the King an open letter about human-rights abuses in the occupied territory and the 'disappearance' of 450 Western Saharans. Bujumbura kills 58 people. President Buyoya's Tutsi-dominated military government blames Hutu rebels, who themselves deny involvement and say the deaths occurred when the army attacked Hutu civilians. An uneasy peace agreement will be monitored by police from Fiji and Vanuatu.
Troops fly in to clear the way in the first armed clashes between the two sides for a year.
Around 100,000 demonstrate in Belgrade against the Milosevic Government.