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...after nearly four years of marking their victories in inches -- in 1990 a single government soldier killed was cause for celebration -- Kagame's forces have taken well over half the country in just two months. Last week they pressed their offensive into Kigali and the southwest, relentlessly shelling Rwandan army positions and closing in on the seat of the interim government in Gitarama, 25 miles southwest of Kigali. Army troops, their morale plummeting, have yet to launch a single counterattack. Despite ongoing cease-fire talks in the capital, the rebels are unlikely to call a halt to the fighting before...
Calling it "a genocide" last week, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali angrily lashed out at the hand wringing. For weeks, he has pleaded with more than 30 heads of state but has managed to get firm pledges of men for a Rwandan peacekeeping force from only four African countries. "It is a scandal," Boutros-Ghali said at a New York City press conference. "All of us are responsible for this failure...
...Rwandan War Rages...
Rebels Shell Rwandan Capital...
Tutsi rebels continued their advance on the Rwandan capital of Kigali, shelling positions held by the Hutu-dominated Rwandan army. The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a plan that would impose an arms embargo on both sides and send an all-African force to intervene...