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President Clinton was so moved by his meeting with survivors of the Rwandan genocide, and his belief that the West had failed to stop the killing, that he was tempted to invoke the ?Never again? mantra that followed the Holocaust. ?But his National Security staff insisted that he hedge any pledge to stop future genocides since it was not a mission that the U.S. military was prepared to take on,? says TIME Managing Editor Walter Isaacson, traveling with the President. ?So, even though he gave a moving speech in Rwanda about the need to stop future genocides, there...
...officials believe that the killers, rebels against the Rwandan Tutsi government of Paul Kagame, fled west back to bases in Congo -- a disheartening prospect since border-crossing raids brought Rwanda and then-Zaire to the brink of war in 1996. Kagame's solution then was drastic: lending military and financial support to the bush rebellion of Laurent Kabila, which swept westward across Zaire to the capital of Kinshasa and renamed the country Congo with Kabila as its new president...
...neighboring countries. The West has generally looked the other way, despite unspoken rules forbidding meddling across Africa's delicate borders. But Museveni believes African rulers have not only the right but the duty to intervene when they see a just cause. The Ugandan leader befriended Kagame when exiled Rwandan Tutsi raised their children among Museveni's Ankole tribe and the two later fought together in the Ugandan bush. Kagame even served in Uganda's army from 1986 to 1990. When the time came to lead an invasion of Rwanda, Kagame relied on Museveni's moral and material help, including arms...
...With U.S. envoy Bill Richardson preparing a visit that could be worth millions in aid dollars to his economically ravaged country, Laurent Kabila is doing his best to improve his image. After a host of denials that Kabila's forces had anything to do with the alleged massacres of Rwandan refugees, Interior Minister Mwenze Kongolo said Wednesday that perhaps, just perhaps, some innocents had been caught in the crossfire. "This doesn't even address what Kabila is being accused of," says TIME's Marguerite Michaels. "Richardson is not going to buy this." Still, she says, Kabila is still enjoying...
Last October Kagame staged a cross-border incursion, joining Zairean Tutsi rebels to rout murderous Hutu militias that had fled across the frontier with the civilian refugees. When Mobutu's army vanished in the face of this onslaught, a full-scale Zairean rebellion suddenly seemed possible. Museveni told his Rwandan friend to tap Laurent Kabila as the leader of a broader movement, and today Kabila, with key help from Kagame, is ready to take Zaire...