Word: kivu
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...landed at a very fine airstrip at the town of Costermansville situated on Lake Kivu...The lake is one of the most beautiful that I have ever seen...It is certainly much more beautiful than Lago di Como and I am quite sure that it contains less dead bodies, of human beings at any rate. --Ernest Hemingway...
...become a fulcrum in an undeclared war between Rwanda and Zaire, a conflict that could precipitate the dismemberment of Zaire, a country the size of Western Europe. Caught in the cross fire were more than half a million Hutu refugees who have been huddling in squalid camps along Lake Kivu for the past two years. By week's end, the fighting had cut almost all of them off from emergency relief, and aid workers were, as one put it, "running out of adjectives" to describe a disaster in which 700,000 refugees have no food, no clean water, no medicine...
...Mokoto massacre signals an ominous escalation in a civil war that is overwhelming the beautiful province of North Kivu in eastern Zaire. Eclipsed until recently by the scale of the killing in neighboring Rwanda and Burundi, the region is boiling over in a conflict that has left up to 50,000 dead and more than 350,000 homeless, 100,000 in the past two months. Thousands of civilians, mostly Tutsi, continue to stream across the border into Rwanda and Uganda...
...Zairian military recently launched an operation to quell what they are calling a rebel uprising by indigenous militia. Long feared for their corrupt and brutal ways, the unpaid combat troops have scored a few successes against the rebels but in the process have spread terror throughout North Kivu. At the Lake Edward fishing village of Vitshumbi, 62 miles north of Goma, paracommandos stormed in behind a barrage of mortar fire last month, killing 15 Bangalima combatants and, according to local human-rights workers, herding 34 suspected collaborators into local churches and gunning them down. A mother of five reported being...
...only are there enough of them -- 30,000 in Goma, 8,000 more south of Lake Kivu, and 2,000 in the French safe zone in southwest Rwanda -- but they are surprisingly well organized. Units have stayed together, and the command structure is intact. Wounded soldiers are visited every day by their colonel, twice a week by the army's Chief of Staff. While other refugees starve, the Rwandan military receive not just rations but something even more important: money, in the form of Rwandan francs brought by the fleeing former government from Kigali. "Every soldier continues to receive...