Word: rwandans
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...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...
Francois Karera was the prefect of Greater Kigali, a man whose incitement of the militia that butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi makes him one of Rwanda's most notorious war criminals. He now calls himself director of food distribution for the Rwandan Refugee Social Affairs Committee. "The population," he says, "has to be with their government. We are here to protect them from infiltrators. We are their family...
Attempts to bypass the former officials have met with failure or worse. Shortly before Banville was forced to leave, several dozen Rwandan Boy Scouts who had been assigned by aid agencies to provide security at the Katale camp ! were attacked by militiamen wielding clubs and machetes; at least 18 of the youngsters are missing and presumed dead...
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...