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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rwanda is the kind of place that takes away all faith in humanity, all hope that the world is making progress toward some higher plane. This year, the world gasped as genocide in its purest form raged through the country. First, the Hutu-dominated government unleashed a frenzy of killing against the minority Tutsis. Then, when the Tutsis launched a rebellion and seized the country, thousands of Hutus fled in fear to border camps. There, thousands more died from cholera and dysentery. By the time the worst had ended, as many as half a million people had died...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Justice, or Else | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

United Nations officials said mass graves containing as many as 10,000 bodies were found 60 miles west of the Rwandan capital, probably grisly testimony to Hutu death squads' handiwork during the country's recent civil war. U.N. peacekeepers had last month unearthed two graves containing 5,400 corpses, just a fraction of the 500,000 minority Tutsi believed murdered. The new repository surfaced only after the U.N. workers had begun digging for soil to fill in the smaller sites. Meanwhile, the flow of defeated Hutu from Rwanda has apparently ceased, in spite of internal U.N. accusations that the victorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RWANDA . . . GHOSTS FROM THE RECENT PAST | 10/6/1994 | See Source »

...last night discovered 4,000 Rwandan bodies in two grisly caches. Half, found in the country's southwest, were not buried, and the rest were tossed in a mass grave 78 miles from Rwanda's capital of Kigali. The corpses are believed to be Tutsi murdered by the majority Hutu during the recent three-month civil war -- and just a fraction of the half-million thought dead. The find increases the pressure on U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to set up a war-crimes tribunal for the perpetrators before the surviving Tutsi -- who won the war -- take matters into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RWANDA . . . WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED | 9/21/1994 | See Source »

...United Nations officials worry that about 500,000 Hutus there, fearing Tutsi reprisals, might flee to the already-deluged refugee camps in neighboring Zaire. The U.N. officials cited scattered reports of apparent revenge killings by Tutsi officials, even though the new government has pledged to take no revenge for Hutu massacres of at least half a million Tutsi brethren during Rwanda's three-month civil war. Meanwhile, the defeated Hutu leadership -- criticized for intimidating fellow Hutus who wished to return home from Zaire -- was removed today to a separate border camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RWANDA . . . TUTSI CONTROL COMPLETE | 9/6/1994 | See Source »

...temporarily suspended its Rwandan refugee repatriation effort in the camps surrounding Goma, Zaire. The move came after Hutu extremists assaulted a group of big-game trackers who had asked to be taken back to their homes in Rwanda's celebrated mountain gorilla reserve. The violence escalated when Zairian gangs looted aid supplies from an air base near Goma. "We seem to be operating in a virtual state of war," said a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week August 21-27 | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

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