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...predominately Tutsi rebel movement that now seems destined to form the next government of bloodstained Rwanda, that is a haunting lament. As they press their advantage against government troops and murderous Hutu militia, the rebels of the Rwandese Patriotic Front are beginning to realize how little of their tiny Central African homeland will be left for them if and when the R.P.F. takes control. Mile upon mile of terraced hillsides and thatch-roofed villages lies deserted. The reek of decomposing bodies and packs of well-fed dogs serve as the only reminders that this was once one of the most...
After two months of bloodletting, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans have fled to neighboring countries -- some to escape the butchery; others, including Hutu who joined in the killing, fearing retribution from the rebels. Up to 2 million more have jammed into camps within Rwanda, seeking safety in numbers. Most are in government-held territory in the western and southwestern parts of the country, out of reach of aid agencies and at severe risk for epidemics and starvation. United Nations peacekeepers, deployed in the once picturesque capital of Kigali now being shelled into a sprawling ruin, concede they are powerless...
...estimate, more than half of Rwanda's 7.5 million population has been killed or displaced since April, and that number is growing daily as massacres continue in government-held territories. "Our people have been totally traumatized," says rebel Captain Richard Matsiko, a medical doctor treating massacre victims behind the front lines. "Children who could talk, laugh and entertain are just blank. They don't know what has happened to them...
...they suffered the indignities of the stateless: scapegoats for the political crises of the day. Through it all, the exiles saw their homeland as a mythical country of verdant hillsides and crystal lakes, whose people and terrain they could glimpse only in textbooks. "I didn't know much about Rwanda," recalls rebel leader Paul Kagame, 37, in a rare quiet moment on the outskirts of Kigali last week. "But I knew it was my country...
...RWANDA: Who Will Stop the Slaughter...