Word: rwandans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teenager's wish list, but that's what Dee Hahn, 58, of Redmond, Wash., bought her grandson Jeremy, now 14, last Christmas. Through World Vision, a nonprofit humanitarian organization, Hahn spent $75 in Jeremy's name to buy a dairy goat that will supply milk for a child-headed Rwandan family. Other items in the nonprofit's catalog include a birthday party for a Romanian orphanage ($30), and a survival pack for a resettling family from Kosovo ($80). The gifts are tax deductible, and gift recipients receive a card from World Vision describing the contribution made in their names...
Somewhere in the corridors of power in Washington stands a metaphorical closet jam-packed with Rwandan skeletons. President Clinton admitted as much last year when he apologized to Rwanda for the West's failure to act in 1994 when faced with overwhelming evidence that genocide was under way in the central African country. But a U.N.-commissioned report released Thursday makes the point more sharply: The United Nations chose to ignore reports of the impending bloodbath, and its inaction was due in no small part to the desire of Washington and its allies to turn a blind...
PAULINE NYIRAMASUHUKO Former Rwandan leader is first woman to be indicted by U.N. tribunal. And it's for genocide
...uninitiated, Uganda seemed a safe haven amid Africa's killing fields. But the country has earned the wrath of the self-exiled Rwandan Hutu death squads for its support of Rwanda's Tutsi-dominated government. Last August the rebels kidnapped six Westerners in the same area; three remain missing...
...backpacks," says a Nairobi diplomat. "These guys were wearing old jeans and T shirts. They were very happy, very excited with what they got." Gorilla-watching expeditions to remote preserves were once limited to the likes of Dian Fossey, the American researcher who lived for 18 years in the Rwandan forests before her murder in 1985. But adventure-holiday companies now take thrill-seeking vacationers into the jungles too. Escorted only by lightly armed rangers, the tourists are easy prey for the poor rebels...