BRUSSELS, Nov 17 (Reuter) - The European Commission will grant 70-million-Ecus to help two million refugees from Rwanda and Burundi survive the next six months and assist their return home, Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Emma Bonino said on Friday. "The objective is to finance a series of projects to build confidence and help them return home," Bonino told a news conference. The aid, which will be channelled through private aid agencies and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, will be used to provide food and medical supplies. The aid, due to be approved on Tuesday, includes 1.5 million Ecus ($1.95 million) to help train magistrates and speed up the trials of an estimated 46,000 people held in prison for alleged acts of genocide. But plans to send 50 foreign lawyers to assist the overstretched local judiciary are held up by the European Parliament, which believes aid would be better spent on training local people. Aid will also be used to improve conditions in over-crowded and disease-ridden local prisons

. An estimated 10,000 refugees a week were returning to Rwanda from Burundi last month, a Commission official said. But only 100 to 150 a day were returning from camps in Zaire and Tanzania, far below the target of 6,000 daily, the official added. The EU resumed a 50-million-Ecus development aid programme to Rwanda in July after pledges by the government to encourage the return of refugees and promote national unity. Aid had been suspended following the massacre of thousands of Hutus by state troops in the refugee camp of Kibeho in April.