Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Killing in Rwanda...
Perhaps Conley is unaware that hospitals and humanitarian relief centers in this Muslim community have been systematically destroyed and that impartial observers refer to Gorazde as a slaughterhouse. Maybe in a future strip, he will ridicule victims of the current massacre in Kigali, Rwanda, where the death toll now stands at a staggering...
...RWANDA: Anarchy Rules...
...bloodshed began after Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, both Hutus, died when their plane crashed at Kigali airport almost two weeks ago. A military team from Belgium, the former colonial power in Rwanda, has concluded that the jet was shot down with rockets belonging to the Rwandan army -- most likely by the presidential guard angered at plans to include Tutsis in the government. The 600-strong guard began murdering all the Tutsis they could find. The army soon joined in, as much to loot as to kill...
...best hope for Rwanda now seems to be the successful takeover of the country by the rebels, who have promised to end the chaos. Hundreds of rebel reinforcements were fighting their way into the capital. While guerrillas inside Kigali carried out hit-and-run attacks on government positions, thousands more bombarded the city from positions in the hills to the north. Rwandan army officers scoffed at the idea of a rebel victory in Kigali. But the Front, which claims as many men as the army -- about 20,000 -- is thought to be a better disciplined and more heavily armed fighting...