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...Rwanda's new government, set up by the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), says it will now welcome officers of the defeated Hutu army into its ranks. Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu declared that about 200 officers already have come back, including two or three colonels: "One, I think, will have a good position in the government." Will others take the bait? The P.M. only days ago announced that Hutus suspected of ordering the massacres in Rwanda's bloody civil war would be prosecuted -- and that the Tutsi-controlled government, whose people were cut down in the pogroms, would sort...
They came like pallbearers, carrying everything from sweet potatoes to sofas in the naive hope that things of value would not be stolen by soldiers or bandits along the way. By last week, when the R.P.F. declared victory and installed a new multi-ethnic government, Rwanda had become "a nation without people," said Panos Moumtzis, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "The whole country is coming out of its borders." Unless the refugees can be persuaded to return, to harvest the crops now rotting in the fields and rebuild the schools and hospitals out of the rubble, disease...
...fact, relief officials counter, the Tutsi victors showed great restraint in their conduct of the four-year civil war and their prescriptions for peace. "The one remarkable thing that we've seen is enormous discipline by the R.P.F. and the Tutsi who have stayed inside Rwanda," says Peter McDermott, senior emergency officer at UNICEF. In a gesture of reconciliation last week, the R.P.F. named moderate Hutu as President and Prime Minister, though the real power seems to be in the hands of R.P.F. General, and now Vice President, % Paul Kagame, who masterminded the military victory. More than half the government...
...horrifying. Astronomers said they had never seen anything like the fireworks produced when comet chunks, one of them roughly as big as an alp, crashed into the planet Jupiter. International relief workers said the same thing, only they were referring to the tide of refugees streaming out of Rwanda and into overnight cities of misery, disease and death. Certainly the millions of people who watched these two cataclysms unfold through news photographs and televised images had never seen anything like them either...
Cholera and a newer threat, dysentery, have killed at least 50,000 Rwandan refugees in the last two weeks, and humanitarian officials fear that their plan to have refugees return from border camps in Zaire could spread disease throughout Rwanda. The rescue effort itself is drawing controversy: physicians are criticizing the U.N. World Food Program for transporting choleric refugees back to Rwanda's capital, Kigali. In one wave, 16 ill people apparently infected 700 others...