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...Rwandan refugee crisis has reached a boiling point now that mass epidemics of cholera and dysentery threaten the lives of thousand. The time has finally come for the United States and the Western powers to make a decision whether or not to intervene and to what degree. If action is to be taken, a plan must be formed before the situation deteriorates, before violence and disease get too far out of control. However the background to the Rwandan crisis merits careful attention before any plans should be made...
...trouble in Rwanda started last October when a violent civil war left between a violent civil war left between 100,000 and 500,000 civilians dead. Members of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) overthrew the mainly Hutu civil government and militia in three months of bitter fighting. During the last few weeks of fighting the Tutsi rebels drove the Hutu army west (towards Zaire), pushing an estimated 1.75 million Rwandan refugees ahead of them. The exiled Hutu Government fled into the French controlled safe zone in southwestern Rwanda. From this haven, the deposed Hutu leaders broadcast messages...
...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...