Word: goma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...escape in a Land Rover. "They were just waiting for us to leave," recalls Bordeau. In the end, between 100 and 150 Tutsi men, women and children were slaughtered at the Mokoto monastery. "The genocidal mentality of Rwanda is spreading here," Bordeau lamented after reaching the nearby town of Goma. "It is a contagion...
...across the Rwandan border. In the Masisi highlands, two small groups of Tutsi remain. Desire Gaspira, 40, a veterinary nurse born in the area, is among them. "Before, Tutsi and Hutu worked together," he said last month. "We drank together. We were brothers. Now we are enemies." In nearby Goma a Tutsi aid worker explained the dilemma facing her: "I was born in Zaire. My father was born in Zaire. But staying here means losing my life. I do not want to go to Rwanda, but nor do I want...
...association of dictator and preacher began with a Robertson relief group, Operation Blessing, a branch of which has botched a corn-cultivation project on a 50,000-acre farm outside the capital, Kinshasa. Last year during the Rwandan refugee crisis, Operation Blessing expanded its humanitarian efforts to Goma but was criticized for spending too much money on transportation, pulling its workers out too soon and proselytizing. ``They were laying on hands,'' an American aid worker recalls, ``speaking in tongues and holding services while people were dying all around.'' Many relief agencies are notorious for mismanagement and backbiting, but even considering...
...refugees are Karera's family, they are in trouble. A recent survey by aid workers in Goma found that food distribution was badly skewed. Former soldiers, officials and militiamen are living well, hoarding donated food and blankets and selling these supplies at high prices. At the same time, nearly half the camp population -- notably the elderly, women and children -- are not getting enough food to ward off malnutrition...
...Kigali. If talks fail, control of the camps will provide another alternative. "We will attack, it is clear," says Karera. Gesturing toward a crowd gathered at a food-distribution center in Katale, he adds with a smile, "Do you really think this situation can last?" Foreign observers in Goma agree. "This is a classic environment for guerrilla incursions," says Captain Declan O'Brien, an Irish army logistics specialist seconded to the aid agency GOAL. "You can't have 30,000 soldiers just sitting here twiddling their thumbs...