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Dian Fossey was a figure of the latter sort. She went to Rwanda in east- central Africa as a child of the '60s, hoping to find a bit of adventure by observing an endangered subspecies, the mountain gorilla. In 1985 she was murdered, under mysterious circumstances, at the research station she had built up for nearly 20 lonely years. In that time, an agreeable young woman became a hard, half-mad case who nonetheless saved "her" gorillas from almost certain extinction...
...week the Burundian government confirmed that ten days of tribal massacres in the verdant, mountainous communities of Marangara and Ntega had left as many as 5,000 people dead and tens of thousands homeless. Western observers estimate that some 38,000 refugees have fled across the border into neighboring Rwanda, with more arriving every...
Hutu refugees in Rwanda said the latest clash began three weeks ago, when troops of the all-Tusi Burundian army started rounding up educated Hutu in the hills of the Marangara district. Fearing another massacre, the Hutu struck first, using machetes and spears to kill the soldiers and hundreds of unarmed Tusi. Hutu refugees reported that the ensuing army reprisals included such atrocities as the bayoneting of unarmed prisoners and use of helicopters and machine guns to fire on fleeing Hutu women and children...
...Burundian government attributed the unrest to Hutu activists in Rwanda, who it says incited fellow tribesmen to attack the Tusi. In a press conference last week, Burundi's President, Major Pierre Buyoya, who took power in a bloodless coup last September, said he regretted the need to use force but denied that the army used napalm...
...have been exposed to the AIDS virus. Now babies and young children are also being infected, some at birth via their mothers, who are AIDS carriers, and others through blood transfusions, which are frequently administered to children suffering from malarial anemia. In tiny Rwanda (pop. 6 million), researchers estimate that as many as 22% of AIDS victims are children...