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...Albright has transformed the job of U.N. ambassador from passive messenger to power player. In addition to explaining U.S. foreign policy, she now helps plot its direction. In an Administration initially wary of foreign entanglements, it was she who led calls for American involvement to prevent an exodus of Rwandan refugees into Zaire. Before that, she argued for a heightened U.S. role in Bosnia...
...officials say they've learned of plans by Rwanda's new Tutsi-controlled government to force 800,000 of 2 million Hutu refugees from camps in the country's southeast. That location is the same "safe haven" French peacekeepers abandoned in August. U.N. military observers said the Rwandan Patriotic Front (R.P.F.), which won a civil war three months ago, now wants to displace the refugees by Oct. 25. Meanwhile, the U.N. says, conditions are so bad in the camps that mothers are abandoning children at orphanages to ensure that their offspring are fed --the result of armed ex-soldiers hogging...
That makes international involvement necessary, and thankfully, the Rwandan government is amenable to this. But time is passing. The need for some retribution is building in the country. Pasteur Bizimungu, the Rwandan president, has warned that further delays could spark violence. "We can't release those persons," he said, "If we release them, there is the risk that there may be acts of revenge." Acts of revenge in Rwanda carry with them the threat of catastrophe...
United Nations officials said mass graves containing as many as 10,000 bodies were found 60 miles west of the Rwandan capital, probably grisly testimony to Hutu death squads' handiwork during the country's recent civil war. U.N. peacekeepers had last month unearthed two graves containing 5,400 corpses, just a fraction of the 500,000 minority Tutsi believed murdered. The new repository surfaced only after the U.N. workers had begun digging for soil to fill in the smaller sites. Meanwhile, the flow of defeated Hutu from Rwanda has apparently ceased, in spite of internal U.N. accusations that the victorious...
...peacekeepers last night discovered 4,000 Rwandan bodies in two grisly caches. Half, found in the country's southwest, were not buried, and the rest were tossed in a mass grave 78 miles from Rwanda's capital of Kigali. The corpses are believed to be Tutsi murdered by the majority Hutu during the recent three-month civil war -- and just a fraction of the half-million thought dead. The find increases the pressure on U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to set up a war-crimes tribunal for the perpetrators before the surviving Tutsi -- who won the war -- take matters...