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...troubles began on July 4, 1998, when her husband left an Arusha hotel in which he had been drinking heavily and went to visit her and their two young children at their home. A few hours later, he was dead in her bedroom, a bullet in his head. The Tanzanian police twice investigated and twice concluded that Cameron had committed suicide. Two employees of his air-charter company told police he had threatened, in the hours before his death, to blow his brains out. A coroner's report listed suicide as the cause of death. In addition, say Kerstin Cameron...
...Most neutral observers believe the case is simply bogged down in the Tanzanian legal system and that New Zealand is only representing a deceased citizen and looking out for the interests of his family, who find it difficult to accept that he would take his own life. Kerstin's relatives, however, are frustrated by what they see as "bureaucratic anarchy." She is jailed, they feel, because of undue pressure from New Zealand politicians, including former Finance Minister Bill Birch-who represented the Camerons' district of Port Waikato, south of Auckland, in Parliament-and former Foreign Minister Don McKinnon...
...people--more than half the population--living in dire poverty, with 12.5 million of them unable to afford the most basic needs. These men and women, almost all subsistence or small-plot cash-crop farmers, have been structurally adjusted half to death. Though Adams points to progress--51% of Tanzanians now survive on $1 a day or less, down from 65% in the mid-1980s--his statistic makes Tanzanian analysts laugh bitterly, because it misses the fact that everything in a farmer's life costs more today. Currency devaluation and the elimination of agricultural subsidies doubled and quadrupled fertilizer prices...
...extremists just two years before. The landscape around the camp symbolized the prospects for the internees in it, scrubby hills that had been denuded of arboreal life, every twig and branch gathered for cooking-fire fuel. Yet Joseph still roamed the hills most days, seeking wood to sell for Tanzanian shillings that he could trade for precious food...
...Joseph and Nereciana, their relationship was a reprieve, a warm place in the heart of this darkness. And even when Tanzanian troops surrounded the camp, launched tear gas into the compound and ordered the refugees onto the roads back to Rwanda, Joseph and Nereciana, holding hands as two links in a 40-mile chain of humanity, could go with hope, believing--despite rumors that Tutsi were waiting at the other end of the Rusumo bridge over the Kageva River to castrate returning Hutu males--that God would watch over them and return them to safety. There were some positive signs...