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...town at the edge of the lake--no longer called Costermansville, but Bukavu--was anything but idyllic last week. And the bodies were piling up. The streets of the Zairean provincial capital were patrolled by Tutsi rebels. Bukavu's Catholic Archbishop was ambushed and murdered. And the town's "very fine airstrip" had become a fulcrum in an undeclared war between Rwanda and Zaire, a conflict that could precipitate the dismemberment of Zaire, a country the size of Western Europe. Caught in the cross fire were more than half a million Hutu refugees who have been huddling in squalid camps...
...Merwe's statements before Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission marked a turning point in the process of seeking redress for the brutality suffered by millions of South Africans during apartheid's kragdadigheid ("ironfistedness"). Set up by President Nelson Mandela last year, the commission has heard mainly from victims. But while many of their stories were moving, the inquiry was perceived as largely feckless, unable to tie the crimes to perpetrators, black or white, on either side of apartheid. Despite offers of amnesty, alleged culprits refused to confess because they were convinced they could get a better deal...
...Krulick makes a charge from which he is certainly safe: when he's not campaigning in order to make the point that democracy is alive and well, Krulick is dazzling youngsters at Walt Disney World's stage adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which he plays evil archbishop Claudo Frollo...
Last week ethnic hatred overcame fear of divine retribution, and death came for the archbishop. At 5:30 on Monday afternoon, Ruhuna was returning to his see of Gitega, 50 miles east of the capital of Bujumbura, when attackers opened fire on his car. Summoned by a witness, rescuers reached the site to find only the smoldering carcass of the vehicle. The bodies of the passengers, including the archbishop, had vanished. In the car was the one possession Ruhuna left behind: the miter he wore to symbolize the power of his office and his church...
...Pope John Paul II called a "generous minister of God." The pontiff will send Cardinal Jozef Tomko, head of the Vatican's office for missions, to celebrate a memorial service--or a funeral, if the corpse is recovered. That will probably never happen. The killers almost surely threw the archbishop's body into the nearby Mubarazi River, the way they have disposed of countless other victims...