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...Hawks' demonstration inflamed Arafat's opponents in Gaza. "This show of muscle was a big mistake," said Mansour Shawa, president of the charitable Benevolent Society for the Gaza Strip. "It just provoked a lot of people." By aligning himself with a factional militia, critics said, the chairman had undercut his claim to be a national leader. "He is going back to acting like the head of a gang," said Ghazi Abu Jayyab, an activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Bloody Friday also tainted the image of the Authority's 9,000-member Gaza Strip security force...
...sent out against the militants, which oppose peace with Israel. "There's an effort to have some sort of reconciliation between the PLO and Hamas, and it's failing," saysTIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer. "The Fatah Hawks are not bound by laws like police -- they are a militia. Their job is to back Fatah (Arafat's nom de guerre) -- and who is Fatah's enemy? Hamas. They're careening toward civil war."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
Relief workers' mounting frustration with the oustedRwandan militia's virtual takeover of refugee campspeaked today when a leading aid group, Doctors Without Borders, pulled out of five refugee camps in eastern Zaire. The group says it will leave the region entirely unless soldiers and armed youths loyal to Rwanda's old Hutu government -- the same gangs that massacred up to 500,000 rival Tutsis this year -- stop stockpiling relief supplies and intimidating others Hutus from returning home. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Andrew Purvis says the move may finally prompt the United Nations to send in a promised police force...
Francois Karera was the prefect of Greater Kigali, a man whose incitement of the militia that butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi makes him one of Rwanda's most notorious war criminals. He now calls himself director of food distribution for the Rwandan Refugee Social Affairs Committee. "The population," he says, "has to be with their government. We are here to protect them from infiltrators. We are their family...
...head at point-blank range. No U.S. soldiers were reported at the demonstration site, near a pro-junta army headquarters, from which attaches had run terror campaigns under the military regime. Witnesses said Haitian troops seized a cage filled with doves and took it back to the militia headquarters, where a soldier bit the head off one of the birds. Nearby about 2,000 Haitians looted a warehouse belonging to Port-au-Prince police...