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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gardens of the presidential palace in Kigali, a chunk of fuselage lies in an ornamental pool. Passenger seats litter the once manicured lawn. A tail wing juts through banana leaves. This is ground zero of Rwanda's carnage, where the bloodletting that has taken more than 200,000 lives had its catalyst. On a quiet evening two months ago, a French-made Mystere-Falcon carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and the President of Burundi from peace talks in Tanzania was hit by rocket fire and slammed into the earth just outside the compound, killing all 10 on board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Welcome to Ground Zero, Rwanda | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

...people have too much hatred," rebel soldier Patrick Kayilanga, 24, said last week in Kigali. When rebels took the city's main airport recently, Kayilanga discovered that both his parents and 10 brothers and sisters had been massacred. Now, he says, he is making plans to emigrate to Canada: "Rwanda is a tiny place. But we have all the hatred in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the Hatred in the World | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

More difficult still will be quelling the anger of the Tutsi, who have doubtless suffered most from Rwanda's carnage. Some, like Consolata Mukatwagirimana in the village of Nyarubuye, are resigned. "The Hutu are there," she said last week. "You can't do anything about them. You can't kill them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the Hatred in the World | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

Negotiators for mainly Tutsi rebels and Hutu government forces met twice without successfully establishing a truce in the two-month-old civil war in Rwanda. The rebels continued to tighten their stranglehold on the capital of Kigali and pushed their assault on Gitarama, where the government has relocated. Meanwhile, the Vatican appealed to the U.N. Security Council to establish a "safe area" -- the same concept tried with so little success in Bosnia -- around a large religious complex offering sanctuary to 38,000 Tutsis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week May 29-June 4 | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...RWANDA: The Pall of Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

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