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...Kagame - the rebel general credited with ousting the Hutu government that orchestrated the killings, and who has led the country as part of a transitional government since 2000 - retained control with a 95% share of the vote. But while Kagame claimed "Rwanda is on the right path," defeated challenger Faustin Twagiramungu was quick to reject the ballot, claiming his campaign was stymied by intimidation...
...until the situation stabilizes. The Hutu fear that the African troops of the United Nations force replacing the French will not be able to guarantee their safety. Also poised to move in are soldiers from the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front. "We want to occupy all Rwanda," Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu declared on Thursday. "Indeed, for the credibility of the government, we have to occupy all Rwanda." Although Twagiramungu pledged the army would not seek revenge, his remarks only deepened the alarm of Hutu inside the enclave. The fears of those camped in the French zone intensified on Friday when...
Rwandan Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu said the new government's victorious guerrilla army will move into the French-protected "safe zone" when French troops leave on Monday. That move could activate the fears of several hundred thousand Hutu refugees huddled there, many of whom don't trust their old foes to spare the rod of revenge after Rwanda's civil war. U.N. officials, who had begged France to extend its Rwandan mission, today said the number of Hutus poised to flee to refugee camps across the Zairian border had reached "critical but not yet catastrophic" proportions. U.N. peacekeepers now believe...
Rwanda's new government, set up by the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), says it will now welcome officers of the defeated Hutu army into its ranks. Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu declared that about 200 officers already have come back, including two or three colonels: "One, I think, will have a good position in the government." Will others take the bait? The P.M. only days ago announced that Hutus suspected of ordering the massacres in Rwanda's bloody civil war would be prosecuted -- and that the Tutsi-controlled government, whose people were cut down in the pogroms, would sort...
...like a time bomb. The exodus has to be undone." The newly installed government called for all refugees to come home and promised that no revenge would be sought on the civilian population. "I'm not interested in leading a country that is considered a desert," Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu declared. He has only to look around his capital to see the scale of the problem. There is no electricity, no water, no telephones, only soldiers and guns and checkpoints. Even his four little children, who fled with him to Brussels two months ago, do not want to come back...