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...next plane, and CARE evacuated its entire foreign staff from Katale shortly thereafter. The letter, it turned out, had not been sent by ordinary aid recipients but by their self-appointed leaders, former members of Rwanda's extremist Hutu government that orchestrated the death of more than 500,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. It was only the latest in a series of increasingly dire threats by these leaders aimed at eliminating outside interference in the camps and tightening their control of food distributions. The power play has presented those responsible for the relief effort with a dilemma: Should they cease...
Francois Karera was the prefect of Greater Kigali, a man whose incitement of the militia that butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi makes him one of Rwanda's most notorious war criminals. He now calls himself director of food distribution for the Rwandan Refugee Social Affairs Committee. "The population," he says, "has to be with their government. We are here to protect them from infiltrators. We are their family...
...officials say they've learned of plans by Rwanda's new Tutsi-controlled government to force 800,000 of 2 million Hutu refugees from camps in the country's southeast. That location is the same "safe haven" French peacekeepers abandoned in August. U.N. military observers said the Rwandan Patriotic Front (R.P.F.), which won a civil war three months ago, now wants to displace the refugees by Oct. 25. Meanwhile, the U.N. says, conditions are so bad in the camps that mothers are abandoning children at orphanages to ensure that their offspring are fed --the result of armed ex-soldiers hogging...
...bedeviling U.S. intelligence: when do efforts to gather information on violent dictatorships and terrorist groups cross the line into aiding and encouraging bloodshed and oppression? It is a problem the CIA faces when recruiting agents in the Iraqi secret police, the Chinese prison system and among the Hutu and Tutsi tribes that slaughtered each other in Rwanda, to mention only a few of the repugnant people it has dealt with. In Haiti specifically, says a White House official, "the CIA has bought and stolen information from all sides" -- even though "we knew that the people we were paying were killing...
What makes Rwanda so much more volatile is the sharp tribal division that has been at the root of its suffering. The current government has members from both tribes, but it was put in place by the victory of the Rwandad Patriotic Front, a primarily Tutsi group. Trials under its auspices will likely be seen as mere vengeance by the country's Hutus, and more bloodshed is a distinct possibility...