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...clutches a bloody wound on the crown of his head, where another child had struck him with a rock in a fight over food. "The food is not enough," he says. "I want to go home." And still there is no safety. Early last week relief workers spotted a Hutu soldier going from tent to tent with a grenade in his hand, looking for Tutsi children to kill...
...year civil war and their prescriptions for peace. "The one remarkable thing that we've seen is enormous discipline by the R.P.F. and the Tutsi who have stayed inside Rwanda," says Peter McDermott, senior emergency officer at UNICEF. In a gesture of reconciliation last week, the R.P.F. named moderate Hutu as President and Prime Minister, though the real power seems to be in the hands of R.P.F. General, and now Vice President, % Paul Kagame, who masterminded the military victory. More than half the government posts went to non-R.P.F. members...
...Kagabo, a specialist on East Africa at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. "It has already fought its war, and now seeks to prove that it was right -- giving it greater moral and political authority. That makes national reconciliation a must, and I think you'll be seeing Hutu members and supporters of the government traveling to refugee camps soon to ask Rwandans to return home...
Tutsi leaders did call on the French to arrest members of the old Hutu government who had escaped by helicopter into the safe haven, so they could be charged with war crimes. But the French, who had long propped up Habyarimana's regime, refused to turn on their former allies, saying that they were waiting for U.N. guidelines on how to handle war criminals. "All the criminals are now outside the country in the camps," an aid worker contended. "And you can bet the R.P.F. is going to screen them all before they are let back...
...Many Hutu leaders only grow more belligerent in defeat. "We will reattack, and we will win this time," vows former Cabinet Minister Bicamumpaka. "It might take one month, three months, six months, but we will arrive in Kigali." Such continued resolve only confirms the views of some U.N. officials that casting the refugees purely as victims suggests a lack of moral memory. "These are the people responsible for most of the murders," says one official in Nairobi. "Yes, we have to feed them. But we also have to pursue justice. I can still smell all the bodies in Kigali. Imagine...