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...spectacle was sickeningly familiar. Thousands of refugees, most of them Rwandan Hutu, clogged the rutted roads of central Africa last week. Thousands of men, women and children were on the move in Burundi, fleeing camps where they had sought asylum last year from the civil war in their homeland next door. Now, spurred by the dread of more ethnic killing, they trudged east toward Tanzania. As they passed other Hutu camps, more thousands gathered up their meager belongings to join the trek. About 40,000 refugees were stalled Saturday just outside Tanzania after the country closed its borders...
...been fracturing Burundi into tense ethnic cantonments, which many officials in the country and outside fear could explode into full-scale genocide. Fresh and ominous spasms of bloodshed erupted in the capital as well as the Majuri refugee camp near the town of Ngozi, where armed men killed 12 Rwandan Hutu and wounded 22 last Monday. That attack, presumably carried out by Tutsi militiamen, followed a week of ethnic cleansing in the capital, Bujumbura: bands of Tutsi swept through mixed neighborhoods, driving out members of the other tribal group, fighting with Hutu militia, shooting stragglers, burning houses and shops. Families...
...association of dictator and preacher began with a Robertson relief group, Operation Blessing, a branch of which has botched a corn-cultivation project on a 50,000-acre farm outside the capital, Kinshasa. Last year during the Rwandan refugee crisis, Operation Blessing expanded its humanitarian efforts to Goma but was criticized for spending too much money on transportation, pulling its workers out too soon and proselytizing. ``They were laying on hands,'' an American aid worker recalls, ``speaking in tongues and holding services while people were dying all around.'' Many relief agencies are notorious for mismanagement and backbiting, but even considering...
...promised police force to separate Hutu forces from refugees. But "it won't be possible," says Purvis. "Hutu leaders will tell you that these are their children -- young people spontaneously rising up and defending their people."U.N.-FUNDED CIVIL WAR REDUX? Purvis says millions in U.N. aid to Rwandan could, ironically, be used to restart the civil war. The former Hutu leaders now have near-total control of the $2.5 million flowing into the camps each day and Hutu forces are already making forays into their homeland. "It's our money, it's taxpayer dollars and all these Christmas benefit...
Major General Augustin Bizimungu, the commander of the defeated Hutu army, is only slightly more circumspect. "People call me a killer of innocents," he says. "But I represent the Rwandan people. ((Defense Minister and former rebel commander)) Paul Kagame must negotiate with us. If he does not, he may have trouble sleeping at night for fear that I will come to bother...