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...recent morning, a neatly typed letter arrived at the offices of CARE in Goma, Zaire, addressed to relief worker Guy Banville and signed by "the refugees of Katale." Katale is a huge Rwandan refugee settlement in a valley north of Goma where the 36-year-old Canadian had been supervising food deliveries for nearly three months. "Frankly," the letter began in French, "it seems to us that you are tired of living." It concluded with a chilling ultimatum: "You must leave the region within 48 hours -- if you value your life. Thank you and bon voyage...
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...
...division emerges from the liberal disdain for hieracrchy. Classical Mongolian verse simply cannot be any better or worse than Milton, the true multiculti declares. I'll grant the fundamental equality of all the world's literature when the deans of leading medical schools across America supply their students with Rwandan anatomy text-books on the grounds that they're all the same anyhow...
Rwanda's Foreign Minister, Jean-Marie Ndagijimana, who allegedly vanished in New York City earlier this month -- along with $187,000 in cash he had brought with him to finance the country's embassy in Washington and its United Nations mission -- surfaced in Paris. He denied taking the money. Rwandan officials at the U.N. claim that the mission is left with "zero" cash...