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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...
...bear responsibility for the tragedy that has engulfed Rwanda. It was the presidential guard, the army and its militia that took the lives of nearly half a million Tutsi civilians during three months of warfare. Last month, when they were defeated by the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front, the Hutu soldiers spread rumors that the new government was killing Hutu civilians, igniting the panic that drove more than a million refugees across the border to Goma. Now, as an army in exile, these same men prolong the nightmare by discouraging their hungry, disease-ridden compatriots from returning home. Next, they...
...Hutu soldiers behave less like a vanquished enemy than an invasion force in waiting, and the taste of defeat seems only to have sharpened their appetite for more fighting. "The war's not over," says Corporal Xavier Ndayisaba, 22, who has just been treated for cholera. "If we can get weapons, we'll fight again. There are enough of us to liberate our country...
...slowed to less than 800 daily as the refugees pondered an unappealing choice: remain in the squalid, disease-ridden camps or return to Rwanda, where, Hutus claimed, vengeance at the hands of the victorious rebels awaited them. Even a few U.N. officials hesitated to advise repatriation of the mainly Hutu dispossessed, saying there may be insufficient guarantee of their safety...
...officials say strife in Rwandan neighbor Burundi, also torn by Hutu-Tutsi tribal tensions, now threatens the main food supply to refugee camps in Rwanda and Zaire. Relief workers fear that starvation in some parts of Rwanda could spark a new exodus of 800,000 Hutus across the border. U.N. officials, equally worried, say such a mass movement of refugees might also be prompted by the planned Aug. 22 departure of French troops...