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Massacre in Rwanda After a short respite, the killing resumes: Raid on U.N. refugee camp kills...
...KIGALI, Rwanda: Suspected Hutu rebels attacked a Tutsi refugee camp with hand grenades, guns and machetes, killing more than 200 people and wounding 200 more in northwestern Rwanda Thursday. For a region that has undergone sweeping and hopeful changes in the last year, the massacre signals the return of an old scourge...
People who live inside the world's many war zones, from Afghanistan to Rwanda, may never have heard of New York or Paris, but they are likely to know of a town in northern India called Jaipur. Jaipur is famous in strife-torn areas as the birthplace of an extraordinary prosthesis, or artificial limb, known as the Jaipur foot, that has revolutionized life for millions of land-mine amputees...
...just cause. The Ugandan leader befriended Kagame when exiled Rwandan Tutsi raised their children among Museveni's Ankole tribe and the two later fought together in the Ugandan bush. Kagame even served in Uganda's army from 1986 to 1990. When the time came to lead an invasion of Rwanda, Kagame relied on Museveni's moral and material help, including arms. While Museveni insists he "wasn't looking" for the opportunity to dislodge longtime strongman Mobutu Sese Seko from Zaire, when the chance came he joined with Kagame to mastermind the revolt. With Washington's tacit consent, he supplies weapons...
...like a hot potato." Though his antipathy for Moi is common knowledge, Museveni has lately bent over backward to bring Moi into the East African Cooperation, an off-again, on-again economic pact among Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, and he seems unlikely to wreck that. But an aide to Rwanda's Kagame told TIME: "Moi will go. Perhaps not with elections...