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Until last week, the world did not get to everybody either. It certainly did not get to Rwanda, a country so infected by tribal hate and civil war that it seemed beyond saving. Three months of fighting between followers of the majority Hutu government and the mainly Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (R.P.F.) left at least 500,000 dead. Most of the victims were Tutsi civilians slaughtered by Hutu militiamen. Of those who survived the genocide, at least 2.2 million have fled the country, including a million Hutu refugees who pushed northwest into the Zaire town of Goma...
...hunger and the sickness conspire to kill as many as possible, but the hate still works as well. Hutu continue to attack Tutsi in the Goma camps. These bodies are different -- not passive, wasting corpses, but twisted wrecks of crushed skulls and flaking blood. A Tutsi woman is accused of brewing poison tea and giving it to 60 Rwandan soldiers, killing them all. She is beaten to death. One group of Hutu fall upon a Tutsi man along the road to the airport, beat him senseless, then lay him on his stomach and stomp on his spine until it snaps...
France's 2,500 soldiers began their planned pullout, setting off fears that 2 million Hutu refugees under their protection could flee to the camps in Zaire. U.N. and U.S. soldiers hope to stem that tide, by creating "way stations" and offering promises that refugees will be safe under the new Rwandan government...
Defense Secretary William Perry said the 750 U.S. troops aiding Rwandan refugees in Zaire and Uganda will swell to at least 4,000 within a week. And that number could further grow if the Pentagon sets up a "way station" system to draw fearful Hutu refugees back to Rwanda, where rival Tutsi now hold power. Meanwhile, a team of U.S. soldiers will assess the conditions in Rwanda's capital to determine if food, water and other supplies could be delivered faster using facilities inside the country -- though Perry said he hadn't yet decided on sending in a large force...
Hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees fled from advancing Tutsi-led rebels, crossing the frontier into Zaire at a rate of up to 30,000 an hour. The rebels now control three-quarters of the country, including the capital of Kigali, a virtual ghost town without water, electricity or food. The rebels say they are willing to share power with their enemy, the ethnic Hutu majority, to form a new government because as much as half of Rwanda's Tutsi population has been massacred...