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Thirty minutes before dawn last Wednesday, Hutu members of the presidential guard kicked in the door of a church just east of Rwanda's capital city of Kigali. Instantly, they opened fire with semiautomatic weapons and tossed in grenades. Then, according to Belgian news reports, they set upon the Tutsi parishioners who were still alive with knives, bats and spears. Almost 1,200 civilians were massacred, more than half of them children...
Representatives of the church and aid organizations promoting human rights and the peace process in Rwanda also suffered. Five priests and 12 young women gathered for a retreat in a Jesuit center near the airport were massacred. All were Rwandan; most were Tutsi. The guards and regular troops of the mainly Hutu Rwandan army reportedly killed Rwandan staff members of several aid organizations while expatriates were forced to look on at gunpoint...
...dawn on Saturday, 280 French paratroopers landed at Kigali airport. By nightfall, convoys carrying 170 of the 255 Americans in Rwanda had either approached or crossed the border into Burundi, where U.S. Marines dispatched from ships off Kenya awaited. The Marines, said a Pentagon official, had an "insertion-extraction" capability; but the Administration was at pains to describe their presence as precautionary. No Americans were reported hurt. Even if the foreigners are able to escape the killing, however, the future for native Rwandans seems likely to be as bloody as their past...
...Rwandan capital of Kigali exploded in bloody ethnic violence Wednesday after the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi died in a suspicious plane crash. Rampaging soldiers killed thousands, including 10 U.N. peacekeepers, Rwanda's acting Prime Minister and more than a dozen priests and nuns. A cease-fire agreement lasted less than 24 hours before rebels escalated attacks on government troops. On Saturday French and Belgian soldiers began to evacuate foreigners...
CENTRAL AFRICA: Rwanda Descends into Chaos...