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...United Nations is speeding up its investigations into the mass killings in Rwanda's three-month civil war, in an attempt to head off the new Rwandan government's plans for its own trials. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali gave a three-member investigative commission up to four months to find out whether defeated Hutu officers -- most of them now encamped in Zaire -- should face an international tribunal. The Tutsi-controlled Kigali government agreed...
...looked like an episode of roadside vengeance. About 30 miles southwest of the capital city of Kigali, four Tutsi, one of them a soldier of the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front, stood around a Hutu man in his 50s. He was barefoot and dressed in a torn shirt and baggy pants. A dirty strip of blue- and-white fabric roped his elbows tight behind his back. His three young accusers shouted that the Hutu was a member of a militia group that had slaughtered Tutsi and political moderates earlier this year. They had seen him beat an old woman to death...
There are plenty of rumors, but little hard evidence. Nevertheless, fear of Tutsi revenge for 500,000 murders keeps more than 2 million Rwandan refugees huddled in disease-ridden camps along the country's borders. Some observers believe the horrifying stories are not just propaganda from defeated extremists of the Rwandan army. A U.N. relief official claims large numbers of Hutu are still fleeing from Rwanda: "They are scared of something, and it's not other Hutu." Two weeks ago, he says, U.N. aid workers driving near the border with Burundi saw about 50 bodies lying beside the road. "They...
...Rwandan Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu said the new government's victorious guerrilla army will move into the French-protected "safe zone" when French troops leave on Monday. That move could activate the fears of several hundred thousand Hutu refugees huddled there, many of whom don't trust their old foes to spare the rod of revenge after Rwanda's civil war. U.N. officials, who had begged France to extend its Rwandan mission, today said the number of Hutus poised to flee to refugee camps across the Zairian border had reached "critical but not yet catastrophic" proportions. U.N. peacekeepers now believe...
...French safe zone in southwest Rwanda -- but they are surprisingly well organized. Units have stayed together, and the command structure is intact. Wounded soldiers are visited every day by their colonel, twice a week by the army's Chief of Staff. While other refugees starve, the Rwandan military receive not just rations but something even more important: money, in the form of Rwandan francs brought by the fleeing former government from Kigali. "Every soldier continues to receive his salary in exile," declared Sergeant Major Charles Bonimpaye. "An army has to have order...