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...recent Rwandan invasion suggests that the Congolese and Rwandan governments, for their part, now doubt that the U.N. should have any role in the region. In December, the U.N. published a report alleging Rwandan support for Nkunda. Kigali shot back that the U.N. was among those that "have failed to resolve the conflict ... despite numerous bilateral, regional and international initiatives in the last 14 years." Conceivably, Rwanda is now showing that it is prepared to be serious about peacemaking and cut off allies like Nkunda if they behave badly. The message from Rwanda seems to be: You, the world...
According to Abed Rabu, a third Israeli soldier then popped out of the tank with an M-16 and fired a single shot. "I didn't understand what happened," says Abed Rabu. "I thought he was firing in the air, and then I looked down and saw my 2-year-old daughter lying there with her insides spilling...
...started screaming, 'Why are you doing this?' And then the soldier shot my two other girls. My wife fainted. And when my mother tried to drag Suwad inside the house, the soldier shot my mother in the chest, her shoulder...
Inside his house, Abed Rabu moved his injured family under the staircase for protection. Frantic, he began phoning the Red Crescent, friends with cars, anyone who might help him reach a hospital. His 2-year-old daughter, shot in the stomach, was demanding water. "I wet her lips with my finger. It was all I could do," says Kauthar, the mother...
...them out. He and nine family members followed, carrying the two other wounded children and their grandmother. "I couldn't tell if Suwad and Amal were still breathing, but there was still a chance they might be alive," says Abed Rabu. "As we walked up the road, the soldiers shot at the dirt around our feet." Abed Rabu says he carried his daughters more than a mile. By the time they reached the hospital, the girls were dead...