Word: rwandans
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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...
...House passed a resolution by voice vote calling on President Clinton to end U.S. humanitarian operations "in or around" Rwanda by Oct. 7. Several lawmakers, their attention focused on a pending U.S. invasion of Haiti, said they wanted to avoid entanglements abroad. Clinton has authorized $250 million in Rwandan aid since April, and only 670 U.S. troops remain...
...nearly every disease organism known to medicine has become resistant to at least one antibiotic, and several are immune to more than one. One of the most alarming things about the cholera epidemic that has killed as many as 50,000 people in Rwandan refugee camps is that it involves a strain of bacterium that can't be treated with standard antibiotics. Relief agencies had to scramble for the right medicines, which gave the disease a head start in its lethal rampage...