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...crossing gates at the Zaire border town of Goma were thrown open last week. No visas were required for entry. So there was no official count of the number of ragged, terrified people who passed through from the Rwandan side of the boundary. But the numbers were high, hopelessly high -- in the first few hours, as many as lived in the town itself. By the end of the first day, it seemed as though a fugitive city had squeezed in. By the end of the second, student Thierry Thabo Asumani, 23, observed that it was larger still. "A country...
...along narrow dirt roads, loaded with food, clothes, pots and pans, they massed over the Rwanda's western border. Just over three months ago, 3.5 million of Rwanda's population of 7.5 million resided in its western area. Now only 2 million remain; the rest seemed suddenly headed toward Goma. Exclaimed Panos Moumtzis of the High Commissioner's office, assessing the scene: "It's a river of people bleeding out of Rwanda...
United Nations officials said bad water and sanitation are spreading deadly cholera among more than 1 million Rwandan refugees encamped near the Zairian border town of Goma. Today more than 200 infected corpses were dumped in a pit near a banana plantation. The Rwandans, most of them Hutu who fear reprisals from the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front at home, also face mass starvation. Of the 660 tons of food officials say is needed daily, the U.N. has only managed to distribute 44 tons. Worse, almost half a million more refugees are streaming to other border towns, with 2 million more...
Even as victorious Tutsi-led rebels swore in moderate Hutu as President and Prime Minister today, the former Hutu rulers tried to set up a government-in-exile in Goma, where 1 million refugees are encamped. "They brought all their money with them," says Purvis -- as well as arms now stockpiled near the border. U.S. refugee officials are openly worrying about reinvasion, he says, but the former government is "in such disarray right now that I don't think it's likely...
...Olympic lottery to bring in cash. The campaign paid off and even netted a lucrative contract with Germany's Adidas, which will supply most of the team's competition uniforms. Outfits for the ceremonies as well as daywear and much of the equipment will be supplied by Goma, a Yugoslav textile firm. There is some irony in that, since Yugoslavia has split apart in a bloody civil war. Its former republics of Croatia and Slovenia (home of the country's best Alpine skiers) will be participating separately...