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Banville left on the next plane, and CARE evacuated its entire foreign staff from Katale shortly thereafter. The letter, it turned out, had not been sent by ordinary aid recipients but by their self-appointed leaders, former members of Rwanda's extremist Hutu government that orchestrated the death of more than 500,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. It was only the latest in a series of increasingly dire threats by these leaders aimed at eliminating outside interference in the camps and tightening their control of food distributions. The power play has presented those responsible for the relief effort with...
...first there was little choice. While thousands died daily of cholera, the question of who controlled aid distributions seemed of little consequence. But as the emergency in the camps in Zaire and Tanzania abated, it became clear that Rwanda's former government was re-creating a replica of its defeated regime, from former ministers down to the tiniest cell leader of a few hundred peasants. Despite efforts by foreign overseers like Banville, each day for the past three months, aid workers have been handing over food, medicine and other supplies to these erstwhile officials...
Francois Karera was the prefect of Greater Kigali, a man whose incitement of the militia that butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi makes him one of Rwanda's most notorious war criminals. He now calls himself director of food distribution for the Rwandan Refugee Social Affairs Committee. "The population," he says, "has to be with their government. We are here to protect them from infiltrators. We are their family...
...Rwanda's Foreign Minister, Jean-Marie Ndagijimana, who allegedly vanished in New York City earlier this month -- along with $187,000 in cash he had brought with him to finance the country's embassy in Washington and its United Nations mission -- surfaced in Paris. He denied taking the money. Rwandan officials at the U.N. claim that the mission is left with "zero" cash...
...Rwanda's Foreign Minister, who allegedly absconded from New York City earlier this month with $187,000 in cash for the country's bankrupt U.N. mission, has turned up in Paris with empty pockets -- or so he claims. Rwanda's government called for an international manhunt to catch Hutu regime holdover Jean Marie Vianney Ndagijimana; today, he told Agence France-Presse: "They're trying to bury me politically...