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...Cross nurse caring for injured and dying Tutsi slaughtered by Hutu fighters during Rwanda's civil war, Sara Rossi never anticipated that she might one day be forced to heal the men behind the atrocities. Yet that is what she now does in a Goma hospital: she tends to vanquished Hutu soldiers who fled across the border into Zaire. "We're saving the lives of those who did the massacres," she says. "They fell so low we couldn't turn our backs on them...
Zaire, admitting its troops in the refugee camps were "out of control," said it would withdraw about 400 soldiers who have been pilfering Rwandan refugees' food and possessions in the border town of Goma. Thousands of Rwandans in the Goma camps protested Thursday against the soldiers, many of whom were unpaid for months and went AWOL to Goma to seek their fortune. About 60 miles to the south today, some 50,000 people reportedly massed across the border from the Zairian city of Bukavu, underscoring relief workers' fears of a new exodus when French troops leave southwest Rwanda...
Rwandan refugees beat to death two men who demanded more food in the Kibumba camp, the largest of three border camps around Goma, Zaire. Relief workers say brawls over food and supplies are growing more common, and they fear the unrest could spread out of control unless supplies of flour, corn and other grains increase. Visible about 3,000 ft. above them, Rwanda's Nyiragongo volcano erupted, spewing ash and dust but no lava on the preoccupied refugees. U.N. officials, meanwhile, launched a new campaign to draw them back home but reported no results...
Consequently neighboring central African countries including Zaire and Burundi have established camps to deal with the influx of refugees; however, conditions in these camps are nightmarish. Food and water are in high demand as the Goma (Zaire) camp consumes nearly 600 metric tons of food and 50,000 gallons of water daily. According to United Nations officials, the present supplies, imported over the 497 mile gauntlet of bandits and renegade militiamen form Entebbe, are grossly inadequate. Moreover, Entebbe seems the only viable airport, as relief operations to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, frequently draw fire from automatic weapons...
...Goma, Zaire refugee camps, French doctors said a deadly fever thought to be typhus has killed 19 refugees and may be spreading. Unsanitary conditions in the camps may be the problem, since the high-fever disease is often spread by lice...