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...peacekeepers last night discovered 4,000 Rwandan bodies in two grisly caches. Half, found in the country's southwest, were not buried, and the rest were tossed in a mass grave 78 miles from Rwanda's capital of Kigali. The corpses are believed to be Tutsi murdered by the majority Hutu during the recent three-month civil war -- and just a fraction of the half-million thought dead. The find increases the pressure on U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to set up a war-crimes tribunal for the perpetrators before the surviving Tutsi -- who won the war -- take matters...
Soldiers of Rwanda's new Tutsi-led government began trickling into a formerly French-protected "safe zone" in the country's southwest -- the last territory not under the victorious rebels' control. United Nations officials worry that about 500,000 Hutus there, fearing Tutsi reprisals, might flee to the already-deluged refugee camps in neighboring Zaire. The U.N. officials cited scattered reports of apparent revenge killings by Tutsi officials, even though the new government has pledged to take no revenge for Hutu massacres of at least half a million Tutsi brethren during Rwanda's three-month civil war. Meanwhile, the defeated...
...N.A.A.C.P. turn itself around and set a new course? Says Shannon Reeves, 26, the group's southwest regional director: "The challenge right now for the N.A.A.C.P. is to go back to what got us here." His office receives 200 calls a day from people seeking legal assistance. "The fact of the matter is, black folk in America don't care about our philosophical debates. They don't care who's on the board. They don't care who the executive director is." He adds, "All I know is that on Monday morning, I am going to work, because those...
Natural Born Killers -- in shorthand, NBK, to echo Stone's nutsy-greatsy JFK -- traces the odyssey of love-thugs Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis) as they terrorize the Southwest and mesmerize America's couch spuds. Like Bonnie & Clyde, Badlands and a zillion tortured teen movies of the '50s, NBK creates two doomed maniacs busy mythologizing themselves. "We got the road to hell in front of us," Mickey tells his bride, and he's not lying. These kids get their kicks on Route 666; when they go traveling, the devil thumbs a ride...
...says, U.N. aid workers driving near the border with Burundi saw about 50 bodies lying beside the road. "They weren't able to stop," he says, "because there were so many R.P.F. soldiers around." Last week a new wave of Hutu refugees began crossing into Zaire from the southwest zone that has been secured by French troops. The French are pulling out Aug. 22, and the Hutu are afraid the R.P.F. is preparing to exact vengeance; relief officials fear a second mass exodus...