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...families of their victims. Shy and nervous, Uwize doesn't seem like a killer. How many of them did? Yet history overflows with examples of average citizens who, motivated by religion, patriotism, tribalism or force, become capable of the most remarkable barbarity. Born in the green hills of Gitarama province, some 120 km south of Rwanda's capital, the former driver had lived in Kigali for only a few years before he says he was compelled to join the Hutu militia by government officials. "We just did what we were told. It was very hard on those who refused, some...
...single government soldier killed was cause for celebration -- Kagame's forces have taken well over half the country in just two months. Last week they pressed their offensive into Kigali and the southwest, relentlessly shelling Rwandan army positions and closing in on the seat of the interim government in Gitarama, 25 miles southwest of Kigali. Army troops, their morale plummeting, have yet to launch a single counterattack. Despite ongoing cease-fire talks in the capital, the rebels are unlikely to call a halt to the fighting before the government has been routed and the massacres stopped...
Negotiators for mainly Tutsi rebels and Hutu government forces met twice without successfully establishing a truce in the two-month-old civil war in Rwanda. The rebels continued to tighten their stranglehold on the capital of Kigali and pushed their assault on Gitarama, where the government has relocated. Meanwhile, the Vatican appealed to the U.N. Security Council to establish a "safe area" -- the same concept tried with so little success in Bosnia -- around a large religious complex offering sanctuary to 38,000 Tutsis...
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