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...R.P.F. leader, Kagame was a brilliant guerrilla tactitian and a strict disciplinarian, banning alcohol and discouraging sex. Tolerant and inclusive, he broadened the movement to include members of all factions, provided they shared his democratic sentiments. Conflicts between Tutsi and Hutu, he told TIME's Marguerite Michaels last week, "are not a problem. We will work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Strongman Make Peace? | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

Each chapter in the fate of Rwanda confirms just how much the catastrophe is the gruesome product not so much of tribal hatreds as of political ambition. The leaders of the defeated Hutu government continued to issue warnings of reprisals, mutilation and death if the refugees went home. Having lost the country, they were determined to hold on to the population and feed its hatreds in the hope of turning it one day into an invading force. For the victorious rebels of the largely Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front, the only hope for consolidating power as a legitimate government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destination Unknown | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...supply hub was accompanied by promises that the deployment was for "the sole purpose of humanitarian relief, not peacekeeping." Even his announcement that the U.S. would formally recognize the R.P.F. was circumscribed by Pentagon warnings that American troops should not get caught up in the warfare between Tutsi and Hutu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destination Unknown | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

Rwanda's new government, set up by the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), says it will now welcome officers of the defeated Hutu army into its ranks. Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu declared that about 200 officers already have come back, including two or three colonels: "One, I think, will have a good position in the government." Will others take the bait? The P.M. only days ago announced that Hutus suspected of ordering the massacres in Rwanda's bloody civil war would be prosecuted -- and that the Tutsi-controlled government, whose people were cut down in the pogroms, would sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RWANDA . . . COME INTO OUR PARLOR | 8/4/1994 | See Source »

...fact the refugees include both the swaggering remnants of the Hutu army and the civilians, Hutu and Tutsi alike, on whom the armed men prey. Many Hutu militiamen were renegades, their drinking and raping and viciousness tolerated by army officers. As relief workers struggled to get food to the spreading camps, the Hutu, equipped with cars and radios, kept track of where the next food distribution would occur and raced to get there first. The militia, many of them drunk or stoned on marijuana, stopped convoys to demand bribes and a portion of the supplies, wildly firing their weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cry the Forsaken Country | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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