Word: rwanda
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...whom have systematically blocked access to suffering refugees. International aid agencies also accused his troops of participating in the slaughter that took place two weeks ago at Hutu camps where 80,000 refugees were huddled in rebel-held territory. More than 1 million Hutu fled into Zaire from Rwanda in 1994 after genocidal tribal warfare there, and an unknown number have been running ever farther west to escape Kabila's advancing Tutsi-led fighters. In recent weeks they have become the hapless victims of many attackers: Mobutu's retreating troops; Kabila's rebels; local Zaireans resentful...
Pillay, appointed by President Nelson Mandela as the first black woman on the South African Supreme Court, spoke about the ICTR, which was created by the United Nations in 1994. The tribunal seeks to prosecute those responsible for the genocide and other crimes against humanity committed in Rwanda in 1994. Between 500,000 and 1 million Tutsis were killed, and currently 80,000 suspected criminals sit in Rwanda's prisons, which can only accommodate 50,000 occupants...
Nearly 150 members of the community Tuesday night gathered to hear Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, justice of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), deliver Radcliffe College's sixth annual Rothschild Lecture...
...Kabila's promise of security for foreign operations could bring Zaire back to life. But will Kabila's mines enrich the nation, or just bring a repeat of Mobutu's kleptocratic rule? "This rebellion is financed by Kabila's friends," Michaels says. "By Museveni in Uganda, by Kagame in Rwanda. These backers are all African. They all know each other and they all have these ties to each other. The hope for Zaire is that Kabila, once in power, will have to answer to his neighbors...
...this proved too much for Paul Kagame, Rwanda's strongman. Enraged, Kagame recruited some 2,000 ethnic Tutsi living in eastern Zaire and trained them with his army. In October, when the Hutu persuaded local Zairian authorities in the Kivu provinces to expel all ethnic Tutsi from Zaire, Kagame ordered his commandos back into Zaire. The alliance of Zairian Tutsi rose to resist the edict, and Zaire's notoriously undisciplined army turned and fled. Within two weeks, the rebels had seized a swatch of eastern Zaire 600 miles long...