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...mass of Rwandans returning home from Zaire 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...
...disease and privation in the camps. What of resettling the Rwandans in their own country? This is the only way to diffuse the crisis. Resettlement will require a major military commitment on the part of the United States. Rwanda is still an armed camp with sporadic clashes between Hutus and Tutsis still occurring...
...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...
...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 the innocent from the guilty...
France's 2,000-man peacekeeping force nervously guarded the last piece of Rwandan turf unclaimed by surging Tutsi rebels -- a "safety zone" designed to protect fleeing majority Hutus. A day after it took the capital, Kigali, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) said France is using the humanitarian zone in southwest Rwanda to protect the losing Hutu government, which the RPF blames for thousands of atrocities. While the rebels prepared late Tuesday to set up a government in the capital and declare a unilateral ceasefire, TIME Paris reporter Bruce Crumley says, the French are downplaying the chance of conflict...