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...crossing gates at the Zaire border town of Goma were thrown open last week. No visas were required for entry. So there was no official count of the number of ragged, terrified people who passed through from the Rwandan side of the boundary. But the numbers were high, hopelessly high -- in the first few hours, as many as lived in the town itself. By the end of the first day, it seemed as though a fugitive city had squeezed in. By the end of the second, student Thierry Thabo Asumani, 23, observed that it was larger still. "A country...
...tide of Rwandan refugees in and outside of the country has risen to 4 million, and U.N. officials are reporting some cases of bubonic plague in addition to the epidemic of cholera. President Clinton, who has drawn criticism from relief officials for not acting quickly enough on the Rwandan crisis, will put up an additional $41.4 million for humanitarian aid there, raising the U.S. contribution to almost $200 million. He also said he would spearhead an international program to stem the cholera epidemic...
United Nations officials said bad water and sanitation are spreading deadly cholera among more than 1 million Rwandan refugees encamped near the Zairian border town of Goma. Today more than 200 infected corpses were dumped in a pit near a banana plantation. The Rwandans, most of them Hutu who fear reprisals from the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front at home, also face mass starvation. Of the 660 tons of food officials say is needed daily, the U.N. has only managed to distribute 44 tons. Worse, almost half a million more refugees are streaming to other border towns, with 2 million more...
Tutsi-led rebels appeared to have secured their grip on Rwanda. In the capital, Kigali, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) worked to set up a multiethnic government to rival the Hutu-dominated government, whose officials fled to a corner of the Central African country. U.S. State Department sources told TIME Washington correspondent Ann Simmons that the RPF decided to set up a coalition government because the rebels don't have the numerical strength to run the country alone. "But not everyone's going to take too kindly to it," Simmons added. "A lot of Tutsi have had their families killed...
...Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front threatened to march into a French-controlled security zone in southwestern Rwanda and disarm Hutu militiamen -- unless the 2,000-man French force does it first. The threat came as theRPF seemed on the verge of rolling into the zone, the last territory not under its control. The Tutsis reportedly have set upa new government with a moderate Hutu as prime minister, even as the old Hutu cabinet tried to operate out of a half-empty luxury hotel.parpar