Following the outbreak of the second war, on 2 August 1998, radio and television stations based in Kinshasa broadcast official communiqués calling for a general mobilisation of the population and collectively accusing the Tutsis of being in collusion with APR rebels and soldiers. In the days that followed, President Kabila’s security services and those people who were hostile to the rebellion embarked on a campaign of hunting down Tutsis, Banyamulenge and people of Rwandan origin in general. Numerous civilians deemed to have a “Tutsi” or “Rwandan” appearance were also targeted. In total, several thousand people were arrested and had their property confiscated or destroyed. Several hundred of them disappeared, the majority of them allegedly victims of summary executions. In the area controlled by the Kabila Government, around 1,500 people were arbitrarily held in detention camps, officially in order to guarantee their safety. From July 1999 onwards, having then lived for over a year in deplorable conditions, these people were gradually able to leave the country as the result of an agreement between the Congolese Government, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and several host countries.