Word: rwandans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tall, pencil-thin general looks like a man in total control. Though Vice President and Defense Minister Paul Kagame is trading his uniform for suit and tie, no one doubts that the 37-year-old commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front wields the real power in his homeland. "This country needs to move," he says. "Someone must give it direction...
...issue warnings of reprisals, mutilation and death if the refugees went home. Having lost the country, they were determined to hold on to the population and feed its hatreds in the hope of turning it one day into an invading force. For the victorious rebels of the largely Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front, the only hope for consolidating power as a legitimate government lay in persuading the majority Hutu to return and live their lives in peace. The new leaders said all the right things. "We must build a country that belongs to Rwandans, not Hutu or Tutsi," declared Vice President...
...strain of dysentery among Rwandan refugees languishing in Zaire is threatening to become too expensive for aid organizations. Relief officials say the contagious, bloody diarrhea is proving resistant to common antibiotics currently in use in the refugee camps, forcing doctors to turn to more sophisticated and expensive medicines. The Veep's wife, Tipper Gore, spent nearly five hours in the largest Zairian refugee camp, Kibumbo, aiding refugees weakened by disease. "They just need someone to hold their hand, love them and hug them," she said. "At least I can do that...
Rwanda's new government, set up by the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), says it will now welcome officers of the defeated Hutu army into its ranks. Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu declared that about 200 officers already have come back, including two or three colonels: "One, I think, will have a good position in the government." Will others take the bait? The P.M. only days ago announced that Hutus suspected of ordering the massacres in Rwanda's bloody civil war would be prosecuted -- and that the Tutsi-controlled government, whose people were cut down in the pogroms, would sort...
...World Health Organization confirmed that a dysentery epidemic among Rwandan refugees in Goma, Zaire has replaced cholera as the number one killer and could claim up to 45,000 lives. Epidemiologists now say the number of cholera cases has dropped by half, but that dysentery -- a contagious, bloody diarrhea that is much harder to treat -- has more than made up for the decline. U.S. Army convoys delivered 100,000 gallons of fresh water, a triumph over a bottleneck at Goma's tiny airport, but far short of the 1.25 million gallons needed daily to meet the refugees' basic needs...