Word: rwanda
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...President Clinton announced on Friday that he was asking Congress for $320 million more in emergency funds in addition to the $250 million already committed, Pentagon planners were wrestling with how best to use the money. The President's promise to dispatch 200 U.S. troops to the airport in Rwanda's capital of Kigali to make it a relief supply hub was accompanied by promises that the deployment was for "the sole purpose of humanitarian relief, not peacekeeping." Even his announcement that the U.S. would formally recognize the R.P.F. was circumscribed by Pentagon warnings that American troops should...
Everyone agreed the refugees must be encouraged to return to their homeland. At the same time, relief groups argued for increasing rescue efforts inside Rwanda and setting up roadside way stations that would support returning refugees. Others insisted that too many people were dying too fast in the Zaire camps to justify diverting aid as a means of luring people home. But if rescuers provided sufficient food, water and medical care in the camps, refugees would have less reason to leave, and so long as they remained, they could be controlled by the ruthless remnants of the former Hutu regime...
...than 22,000 former bureaucrats suspected of complicity in the slaughtering -- and that does not include thousands of militiamen, soldiers and presidential guards who could also face a firing squad for genocide. President Bizimungu promised that the trials would be fair and open to foreign jurists. But most of Rwanda's magistrates were either massacred or fled, and there is no police force, raising the fear that the pursuit and execution of justice may rest with vengeful soldiers of the R.P.F...
Then there is the problem of rebuilding a comparatively prosperous country that was once the most densely populated in Africa. The task requires the equivalent of a Marshall Plan, argues R.P.F. spokesman Claude Dusaidi at the U.N. "There is nothing left in Rwanda. There is a polluted environment; there is no educational system; the civil service has disappeared; there's no judiciary," he says. The capital of Kigali is without electricity; the banks have been emptied of money; and government ministers communicate by letter because the telephones...
...RWANDA: Is Anywhere Safe...