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...example of the problem Clinton's directive addresses. The horrifying slaughter is another explosion in a mainly ethnically based civil war that outsiders understand imperfectly if at all -- and therefore do not know how to solve. No one is even certain what sort of diplomatic efforts might persuade the Rwandan factions to halt the bloodletting. The only obvious alternative to traditional diplomacy would be for a well-equipped army to move into Rwanda -- shooting if necessary -- and force a cease-fire. But no one is volunteering for such an army...
...capital Kigali, the Rwandan army shelled the national sports stadium, where more than 5,000 refugees from the country's civil war had sought sanctuary. Forty people were killed by the bombardment, and hundreds were wounded. In the past two weeks, as many as 100,000 people have been killed in the fighting, aid groups estimate. The U.N. decided to evacuate nearly all its 1,700-member peacekeeping contingent in the face of the continuing slaughter; some Belgian peacekeepers burned their blue U.N. berets in frustration before boarding their flights. On Saturday, rebels were said to have announced a conditional...
...country by the rebels, who have promised to end the chaos. Hundreds of rebel reinforcements were fighting their way into the capital. While guerrillas inside Kigali carried out hit-and-run attacks on government positions, thousands more bombarded the city from positions in the hills to the north. Rwandan army officers scoffed at the idea of a rebel victory in Kigali. But the Front, which claims as many men as the army -- about 20,000 -- is thought to be a better disciplined and more heavily armed fighting force. It has flatly refused a cease-fire until the presidential guard...
...buses and clung to the sides of any vehicle that would attempt the twisting, mountainous roads. The wealthy raced away in luxury cars with private bodyguards, the barrels of automatic weapons jutting from every window. Danger still waited at checkpoints every mile or so, manned by demoralized and frightened Rwandan soldiers looking for loot...
...Rwandan capital of Kigali was ravaged by continued ethnic violence between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes as bands of marauders armed with guns and machetes roamed the streets in search of victims. The numbers of dead were estimated to reach into the tens of thousands by week's end, with Belgian troops scrambling to evacuate the last foreigners from the city. Despite tentative talks with government forces that began Friday, rebel troops warned that any non- nationals remaining in the city after 24 hours would be considered hostile...