Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them appear to be human skeletons shrouded in thin layers of skin and brightly colored clothing. Tragically these scenes are reminiscent of other scenes related by American GIS liberating the concentration camps in 1945 at the end of the Second World War. Yet this is not Europe. This is Rwanda...
...trouble in Rwanda started last October when a violent civil war left between a violent civil war left between 100,000 and 500,000 civilians dead. Members of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) overthrew the mainly Hutu civil government and militia in three months of bitter fighting. During the last few weeks of fighting the Tutsi rebels drove the Hutu army west (towards Zaire), pushing an estimated 1.75 million Rwandan refugees ahead of them. The exiled Hutu Government fled into the French controlled safe zone in southwestern Rwanda. From this haven, the deposed Hutu leaders broadcast messages...
...nearly 600 metric tons of food and 50,000 gallons of water daily. According to United Nations officials, the present supplies, imported over the 497 mile gauntlet of bandits and renegade militiamen form Entebbe, are grossly inadequate. Moreover, Entebbe seems the only viable airport, as relief operations to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, frequently draw fire from automatic weapons...
...Clinton administration has pledged $150 million in aid for Rwanda as well as up to 4,000 US military personnel to coordinate airdrops. UN. Secretary General Boutros-Ghali estimates that the effort will run approximately $434 million. Nonetheless the efforts at best would reduce the spread of disease and privation in the camps. What of resettling the Rwandans in their own country? This is the only way to diffuse the crisis. Resettlement will require a major military commitment on the part of the United States. Rwanda is still an armed camp with sporadic clashes between Hutus and Tutsis still occurring...
...Charge: Rwanda's new Tutsi strongman...