Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...including a million Hutu refugees who pushed northwest into the Zaire town of Goma in just five days last week. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of earlier refugees, Hutu and Tutsi alike, languish in camps across the eastern border in Tanzania and across the southern border in Burundi. If the exodus continues, half the country's population of 7.5 million will soon have died or dispersed...
...migration began three months ago, when fighting engulfed Kigali. Two hundred and fifty thousand Hutu from the eastern region fled east over the border of Tanzania, in what the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called "the biggest, fastest exodus" in the agency's history. In so doing, the Hutu created the UNHCR's largest, most crowded refugee camp. Both superlatives, unfortunately, were short-lived. As R.P.F. mortar fire zeroed in on the hills surrounding Gisenyi last Wednesday, another sea of refugees, many originally from the Kigali area, surged out. Jostling along narrow dirt roads, loaded with food, clothes, pots...
...real news, 500,000 people were in the process of getting hacked to death in Rwanda, sparking the largest refugee exodus in recent memory. Though several local television news outlets felt compelled to send crews to cover the Simpson "story," not a single televised report came out of Rwanda until a French Antenna 2 crew followed the French military in. A lot of death, sure, but no sex or intrigue or mystery...
...situation in Haiti. Refugees were continuing to flee at the rate of 2,000 a day. Ad-hoc refugee camps at Guantanamo naval base and elsewhere were jammed to capacity, and Coast Guard cutters were nearly overwhelmed. In the Haitian countryside, many villages are being depopulated by the exodus; once bustling main streets are now virtually deserted, and more homes seem to be boarded up than inhabited...
...exodus was triggered by the change in Clinton's refugee policy that went into effect three weeks ago. Rather than automatically being sent back to Haiti, refugees would be interviewed to determine whether they were entitled to political asylum. Word spread quickly in Haiti that those who could get a boat and make it a few miles out to sea would be picked up by the Americans and would stand a much better chance of making it to the U.S. So far, 1 out of 4 refugees interviewed at sea has been granted asylum, in contrast to just...