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...troop base camp in Zaire. A small group of armored vehicles and 40 Foreign Legion paratroopers joined them. The potentially deadly irony of this situation: the French, threatened most directly by Tutsi rebels, are aiming to secure a refugee camp to protect 8,000 Tutsi from the widespread slaughter inflicted by ruling Hutu militias...
...Security Council rallied around French plans to send mercy-mission troops into Rwanda, following several days of international jitters. Most members of the 15-nation Council -- including the United States -- are now content to let France try to contain the slaughter until 5,500 U.N. reinforcements can arrive. But all sides within Rwanda worry about further bloodshed. Tutsis, who now control two-thirds of the country, especially hate the French for aiding what they consider a genocidal government in 1990. They call the French move "an act of war." While such threats chill the rest of Europe, TIME Paris bureau...
...wondering world bogged down in complexities and cultural doubts. Scholars like Stephen Ambrose, author of a new book on D-day, put the meaning in simple but heroic terms: "The greatest event of this century." Some might argue, but not the men who struggled ashore through the slaughter and their individual terror...
Seven weeks of such and estimates of a death toll anywhere from 200,000 to half a million have moved the world to tears -- but not much else. Why is it that the international community has proved unwilling or unable to stop the slaughter...
RWANDA: Who Will Stop the Slaughter...