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...there any task left to be performed by 14,000 heavily armed troops? Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu said he did not believe military intervention was necessary any longer, and he relayed that view to the U.N. Security Council--which voted to authorize the mission anyway. Canada still planned to go. But Clinton reserved judgment. "I don't think we know enough yet," he concluded, "to say that the mission won't be needed." He ordered the Pentagon to continue preparations but delayed giving a deployment order. Relief workers on the scene still insist that an armed force is vital...
...Solve the Rwandan refugee crisis and win the Nobel Peace Prize...
GOMA, Zaire: Rwandan refugees and displaced Zairians began flocking toward home today as if the doors to their cells suddenly had been flung open, and across the world, diplomats were crossing their fingers. A Tutsi offensive had driven Hutu forces westward into Zaire, potentially forcing the Hutu militias to relinquish control of the bursting Mugunga refugee camp that has served as a barren purgatory to more than 1 million people, and as cover for thousands of militiamen hiding from their enemies. A significant exodus would greatly ease the need for the U.N. humanitarian and military intervention that has been hurriedly...
...their roles in the Tutsi genocide, which many still seemed determined to carry to its end. Since then the camps have provided these groups with a base from which to wage their struggle to overthrow the Tutsi-dominated government that replaced them in Rwanda. For its part, the Rwandan government has been anxious to root out the guerrillas. After several deals with Zaire to close the camps, each of which fell through, a chance for more forceful action finally arose with the plight of the Banyamulenge...
...struggle, and there has been little justice for the victims so far. But after more than two years, the first hearings began Thursday in Arusha at the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. First to stand before the tribunal is Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former Hutu mayor of the Rwandan village of Taba. He is charged with inciting Hutu militias in 1994 to the mass murder of Tutsis. Akayesu's lawyer is expected to seek a delay, saying he hasn't had adequate time to prepare a defense. TIME's Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis that the prosecution...