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...envoys are in motion, and humanitarian organizations are pleading for the creation of safe havens for refugees inside Rwanda. But the example of Bosnia's safe areas encourages no one, and the only aid being delivered is to the vast new camps across Rwanda's borders in Tanzania and Burundi. At the U.N., there is only a vague hope for a cease-fire. "We are at a loss to know what to do," says an Asian delegate. The butchery is "inhuman, ghastly," says U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda David Rawson. Still, says another State Department official, "it's not that...
...bloodshed began after Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, both Hutus, died when their plane crashed at Kigali airport almost two weeks ago. A military team from Belgium, the former colonial power in Rwanda, has concluded that the jet was shot down with rockets belonging to the Rwandan army -- most likely by the presidential guard angered at plans to include Tutsis in the government. The 600-strong guard began murdering all the Tutsis they could find. The army soon joined in, as much to loot as to kill...
After three years of fighting, Habyarimana's regime in Rwanda, made up largely of fellow Hutus, had reached a peace accord with the mainly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front last August. But Habyarimana failed to form an interim government to last until new elections could be conducted. Burundi's Ntaryamira had been elected President in January by the National Assembly after the assassination of fellow Hutu Melchior Ndadaye in a bloody coup attempt last October. With Burundi's army still under the control of the Tutsis, however, Ntaryamira had been unable to stop the rash of ethnic clashes that have killed...
...dawn on Saturday, 280 French paratroopers landed at Kigali airport. By nightfall, convoys carrying 170 of the 255 Americans in Rwanda had either approached or crossed the border into Burundi, where U.S. Marines dispatched from ships off Kenya awaited. The Marines, said a Pentagon official, had an "insertion-extraction" capability; but the Administration was at pains to describe their presence as precautionary. No Americans were reported hurt. Even if the foreigners are able to escape the killing, however, the future for native Rwandans seems likely to be as bloody as their past...
...Rwandan capital of Kigali exploded in bloody ethnic violence Wednesday after the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi died in a suspicious plane crash. Rampaging soldiers killed thousands, including 10 U.N. peacekeepers, Rwanda's acting Prime Minister and more than a dozen priests and nuns. A cease-fire agreement lasted less than 24 hours before rebels escalated attacks on government troops. On Saturday French and Belgian soldiers began to evacuate foreigners...