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...week, the world did not get to everybody either. It certainly did not get to Rwanda, a country so infected by tribal hate and civil war that it seemed beyond saving. Three months of fighting between followers of the majority Hutu government and the mainly Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (R.P.F.) left at least 500,000 dead. Most of the victims were Tutsi civilians slaughtered by Hutu militiamen. Of those who survived the genocide, at least 2.2 million have fled the country, including a million Hutu refugees who pushed northwest into the Zaire town of Goma in just...
...possible, but the hate still works as well. Hutu continue to attack Tutsi in the Goma camps. These bodies are different -- not passive, wasting corpses, but twisted wrecks of crushed skulls and flaking blood. A Tutsi woman is accused of brewing poison tea and giving it to 60 Rwandan soldiers, killing them all. She is beaten to death. One group of Hutu fall upon a Tutsi man along the road to the airport, beat him senseless, then lay him on his stomach and stomp on his spine until it snaps. No one bothers to cover his body. There...
Relief officials all agree the only real hope for the Rwandan people is for them to return to their country, retrieve their farms and rebuild their homes and their lives. "The longer the refugees stay here, the more explosive it becomes," says the World Food Program's Daan Everts. "It's like a time bomb. The exodus has to be undone." The newly installed government called for all refugees to come home and promised that no revenge would be sought on the civilian population. "I'm not interested in leading a country that is considered a desert," Prime Minister Faustin...
President Clinton said he'll ask Congress for $320 million more in aid for Rwanda's dying refugees -- bringing the U.S. contribution up to almost $500,000. Clinton's also set to send 200 U.S. troops to the Rwandan capital to set up an operations base at the airport. The president said the American humanitarian effort won't cease "until the dying stops and the refugees have returned." Two thousand refugees die every day. Administration officials said the operation could create a corridor of waystations to help refugees returning from Zaire, if the first two weeks go well...
...soldiers began their planned pullout, setting off fears that 2 million Hutu refugees under their protection could flee to the camps in Zaire. U.N. and U.S. soldiers hope to stem that tide, by creating "way stations" and offering promises that refugees will be safe under the new Rwandan government...