Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real news, 500,000 people were in the process of getting hacked to death in Rwanda, sparking the largest refugee exodus in recent memory. Though several local television news outlets felt compelled to send crews to cover the Simpson "story," not a single televised report came out of Rwanda until a French Antenna 2 crew followed the French military in. A lot of death, sure, but no sex or intrigue or mystery...
Tutsi-led rebels appeared to have secured their grip on Rwanda. In the capital, Kigali, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) worked to set up a multiethnic government to rival the Hutu-dominated government, whose officials fled to a corner of the Central African country. U.S. State Department sources told TIME Washington correspondent Ann Simmons that the RPF decided to set up a coalition government because the rebels don't have the numerical strength to run the country alone. "But not everyone's going to take too kindly to it," Simmons added. "A lot of Tutsi have had their families killed...
...Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front threatened to march into a French-controlled security zone in southwestern Rwanda and disarm Hutu militiamen -- unless the 2,000-man French force does it first. The threat came as theRPF seemed on the verge of rolling into the zone, the last territory not under its control. The Tutsis reportedly have set upa new government with a moderate Hutu as prime minister, even as the old Hutu cabinet tried to operate out of a half-empty luxury hotel.parpar
...peacekeeping force nervously guarded the last piece of Rwandan turf unclaimed by surging Tutsi rebels -- a "safety zone" designed to protect fleeing majority Hutus. A day after it took the capital, Kigali, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) said France is using the humanitarian zone in southwest Rwanda to protect the losing Hutu government, which the RPF blames for thousands of atrocities. While the rebels prepared late Tuesday to set up a government in the capital and declare a unilateral ceasefire, TIME Paris reporter Bruce Crumley says, the French are downplaying the chance of conflict. The French field troops, meanwhile...
After the U.N. narrowly approved a proposed mission to protect refugees from tribal slaughter, France began sending 2,500 Foreign Legionnaires and marines across the border into Rwanda from Zaire. Rwandan rebels at first opposed the intervention, but later said they would not engage the French if they did not interfere in the civil war. A U.N. contingent is expected to replace the French in a few months...