Word: kigali
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...Rwanda, another disaster unfolds as the United Nations stands idly by. Racial fighting on an immense scale has proceeded in and outside of Kigali, the capital city, while only private relief organizations have aided civilians. Has the terror in the former Yugoslavia tied the U.N.'s hands completely...
...shot down by a rocket last Wednesday, previously moderate fighting between the powerful Tutsi minority and the president's Hutu loyalists escalated to tragic proportions. As in Bosnia and Croatia, race has become the only criterion for murder. Hundred of thousands of people--Hutus and Tutsis--are fleeing Kigali, but they have nowhere to go. Espcaping the fighting gives them a chance at life, but starvation is already claiming thousands in the barren lands around the city...
...obligation to these people is clear. They must be fed, cared for and protected. Further more, anyone who wants to leave Kigali must be made free to do so. As foreigners are escorted out of Rwanda by their own military forces, native residents can only look on. Where are the tent cities, the makeshift hospitals, the guarded convoys of refugees? Though these are the lamentable bastions of civil war, they do serve a humanitarian purpose. And still, the aid of the U.N. has been missing...
...KIGALI ON THE CHARLES...
...smug dismissal of a petition with strong popular support is enough to halt the council's slide into irrelevance and raise the ire of heretofore (justifiably) uninterested students. The council can surely expect a jump in refund requests next semester; and, thankfully, Gabay, unlike his autocratic mentor in Kigali, has no well-armed Presidential guard to help out with dues collection...