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French Troops Enter Rwanda...
Guess whose turn it is to preside over the U.N.'s pre-eminent Security Councilcome autumn? That's right: Rwanda, where the unstable Hutu-led government is accused of committing thousands of atrocities. Extraordinarily, even as diplomats discussed a special U.N. tribunal today to investigate genocide in the central African country, the embarrassed Security Council met privately to find a way out of its predicament. The result: some calendar tinkering that moves Rwanda out of the rotating council presidency in September, when the high-profile General Assembly convenes and the world spotlight is on the U.N.parpar
Ignoring threats of bloodshed from Tutsi rebels, nearly 600 French soldiers in Operation Turquoise advanced several miles into Rwanda from the 2,500-troop base camp in Zaire. A small group of armored vehicles and 40 Foreign Legion paratroopers joined them. The potentially deadly irony of this situation: the French, threatened most directly by Tutsi rebels, are aiming to secure a refugee camp to protect 8,000 Tutsi from the widespread slaughter inflicted by ruling Hutu militias...
...Security Council rallied around French plans to send mercy-mission troops into Rwanda, following several days of international jitters. Most members of the 15-nation Council -- including the United States -- are now content to let France try to contain the slaughter until 5,500 U.N. reinforcements can arrive. But all sides within Rwanda worry about further bloodshed. Tutsis, who now control two-thirds of the country, especially hate the French for aiding what they consider a genocidal government in 1990. They call the French move "an act of war." While such threats chill the rest of Europe, TIME Paris bureau...
Advancing Tutsi rebels backed Hutu-dominated government troops into the western parts of Rwanda, forcing them to turn and fight in their first counteroffensive in the grisly two-month-old civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands. The latest bloodshed included the first confirmed massacre carried out by the rebels: the slayings of several Roman Catholic clergy, including the Archbishop of Kigali...