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...Louise Slaughter...
...people were killed by the bombardment, and hundreds were wounded. In the past two weeks, as many as 100,000 people have been killed in the fighting, aid groups estimate. The U.N. decided to evacuate nearly all its 1,700-member peacekeeping contingent in the face of the continuing slaughter; some Belgian peacekeepers burned their blue U.N. berets in frustration before boarding their flights. On Saturday, rebels were said to have announced a conditional cease-fire to start midnight Monday...
Tribal bloodlust and political rivalry unleash a slaughter...
...numbing stacks of corpses were the grisly hallmark of a horrifyingly intimate style of slaughter, literal hand-to-hand combat. The predominantly Tutsi forces of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and the Hutu-dominated army and presidential guard battled each other with mortars, machine guns and hand grenades. But what kept people shuddering in the darkest corners of their homes were the machete-armed gangs of Hutu men on a wild killing spree, often drunk and dressed in startling fashions looted from abandoned stores and houses of the dead. Swaggering Hutu men and boys paraded through the city, loaded with weapons...
...Tutsi rebels have promised not to retaliate against the Hutus and have pledged to end the slaughter. But the refugees know just how many times that promise has been made over the years by both tribes -- and then broken...