Word: rwandans
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KISANGANI, Zaire: U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson arrived in Kinshasa with orders to negotiate a peace between the government and rebel leader Laurent Kabila and at the same time help to extricate some 100,000 Rwandan refugees from the path of the rebellion. After months of resisting U.N. air evacuation of refugees on the grounds that it would disrupt troop movements, rebel leader Laurent Kabila made an abrupt turnaround Sunday and gave the U.N. just sixty days, starting May 1, to track down and evacuate every last refugee. After Sunday's maiden voyage carried just 40 refugees from Kisangani to their...
KISANGANI, Zaire: It's difficult for 100,000 people to vanish without a trace, but that's what's happened in eastern Zaire. Relief workers say several refugee camps, each of which held tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees only a few days ago, are entirely deserted -- and no one knows what happened to the people. Rebel forces had sealed the area off Monday, allegedly to protect the Rwandan Hutu refugees against rampaging villagers. When U.N. aide workers were allowed to return to the camps days later, no one was left. Refugees have abandoned the camps before, usually when rebels...
...problem started in 1994 when the Kivus found themselves playing host to some 1.2 million Hutu refugees from Rwanda. Many of those refugees were members of the former Rwandan government, which had orchestrated the genocide of nearly 1 million Rwandan Tutsi. When the predominantly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front took over the country in July, Hutu began pouring into Zaire to escape retribution. There they set up vast encampments, from which their leaders launched raids and incursions back into Rwanda. By July 1996 the Hutu refugee militias were also murdering Tutsi tribesmen who lived in eastern Zaire...
...tanks, are headed toward the city of Beni in eastern Zaire. According to the official, the Ugandans are trying to join rebel forces as they brace for a counterattack by Zairian army troops massed to the west at Kisangani. Although Zaire's government has frequently complained that Ugandan and Rwandan soldiers are fighting alongside rebels, it now appears that the country's army has recruited some outside help of its own. The unnamed official insists that uniformed men filmed by television crews last week alongside Zairian soldiers actually are technicians hired by Zaire to service the army's equipment...
...Rwandan government has asked the United Nations for relief assistance. Although the U.N. has proposed a $260 million humanitarian aid package, hesitancy from President Clinton and Congress has slowed the final transactions. Perhaps isolationism is rampant in American foreign policy these days as a result of failed U.S. attempts to intervene in Bosnia and Somalia. Or perhaps apathy toward foreign issues, especially those concerning obscure refugees, do not attract our leaders' interest. During the month of November, while our country was obsessed with presidential elections, turn-overs in Congress and resigning cabinet members, dying Hutus were de-prioritized. Indifference...