Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...temporarily suspended its Rwandan refugee repatriation effort in the camps surrounding Goma, Zaire. The move came after Hutu extremists assaulted a group of big-game trackers who had asked to be taken back to their homes in Rwanda's celebrated mountain gorilla reserve. The violence escalated when Zairian gangs looted aid supplies from an air base near Goma. "We seem to be operating in a virtual state of war," said a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
...Rwanda and Zaire -- previously on the outs about how to bring about the return of 1.2 million wary Hutu refugees in Zairian border camps -- agreed to work together to solve the crisis. Senior United Nations officials called the pledge a "big achievement," mainly because it means Zaire might crack down on leaders of Rwanda's ousted Hutu government who are now preventing some refugees in the camps from going home...
...RWANDA: Exodus...
French Hand-Off in Rwanda...
...peacekeeping force of 2,500 French troops, based in southwestern Rwanda since June, prepared to hand over its mission to a U.N. contingent of Ghanaian and Ethiopian soldiers. But the pending transfer threatened to spark such a mass exodus of Hutu, fearful of the predominantly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic + Army, that Zaire closed its border at Bukavu in an effort to prevent another Goma...