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As the warfare between government troops and rebels entered its fourth week, a shaky cease-fire collapsed, and savage fighting erupted again in the capital, Kigali. In what U.N. workers described as the biggest and fastest exodus they had ever seen, more than 250,000 people poured into neighboring Tanzania...
The Western troops could barely manage to protect their own countrymen. A 2,400-member U.N. peacekeeping force, in Kigali to monitor a peace accord signed last year, lost 10 of its Belgian members when they tried to save the life of the Tutsi Prime Minister. Some 12,000 people...
U.N. security forces have been in Bosnia for weeks; they're sitting around, wringing their hands, as the Serbian shelling continues. But Rwanda, on U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali's home continent, has not received more than cautious rhetoric.
As the U.S. cautiously raised the possibility of using air power to enforce peace in eastern Bosnia, the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, once designated a "safe area" by the U.N., shuddered under continued attack by Serb troops. The U.S. urged the U.N. to offer some protection to the besieged city...
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