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From his earliest days, Kagame has been caught up in the country's turmoil. Born in southern Rwanda, he was taken to Uganda at the age of two when his parents fled anti-Tutsi pogroms. He grew up in a refugee camp. After high school, he became a guerrilla fighter in the Ugandan rebel army, where he rose to chief of military intelligence. When the R.P.F. invaded Rwanda in 1990, Kagame was taking an officers' course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The assault foundered when Major General Fred Rwigyema was killed. Kagame flew back to take charge. "Hundreds had died...
...instant cities of despairing souls on the borders of Rwanda, hope proved less contagious than fear or cholera. Thousands of refugees kept dying in the ghastly camps of Zaire last week, as many as 2,000 a day. As the world struggled to assuage the suffering, word went out from the U.N., the White House, the relief agencies to 2 million sick and starving people: there is food in Rwanda and clean water and a promise of safety. Go home: that is the only real salvation. Some refugees, suspecting that they were merely choosing where they were going...
Each chapter in the fate of Rwanda confirms just how much the catastrophe is the gruesome product not so much of tribal hatreds as of political ambition. The leaders of the defeated Hutu government continued to issue warnings of reprisals, mutilation and death if the refugees went home. Having lost the country, they were determined to hold on to the population and feed its hatreds in the hope of turning it one day into an invading force. For the victorious rebels of the largely Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front, the only hope for consolidating power as a legitimate government...
...boosted the U.S.'s stature abroad; 34 percent disagree with this assessment, and 49 percent say there hasn't been much change since Clinton took over.In specific hot spots around the world, Americans had pretty clear opinions. For instance, an overwhelming majority (69 percent) favor sending military troops to Rwanda to provide humanitarian aid. And 61 percent say they wouldn't want our soldiers to be sent to oust Haiti's government to restore Aristede...
...survival of Rwanda's community of rare mountain gorillas -- made famous by Dian Fossey, whose story inspired the movie "Gorillas in the Mist" -- is threatened by starving civilians who are killing them for "bush meat," the World Society for the Protection of Animals warned today...