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Once again Africa in general, and the unfortunate nation of Rwanda in particular, has beggared Western experience and imagination. Barring unforeseen circumstances, Rwanda's civil war is nearly over. The mainly Tutsi rebels, whose people were victims of one of the largest genocidal slaughters in the last decade, have won. Two weeks ago, following a military campaign brilliant enough to make the textbooks, the Rwandan Patriotic Front took over the capital of Kigali. Last Thursday the rebels marched to within nine miles of the town of Gisenyi, the latest stronghold of their former tormentors -- members of the majority Hutu tribe...
Even as victorious Tutsi-led rebels swore in moderate Hutu as President and Prime Minister today, the former Hutu rulers tried to set up a government-in-exile in Goma, where 1 million refugees are encamped. "They brought all their money with them," says Purvis -- as well as arms now stockpiled near the border. U.S. refugee officials are openly worrying about reinvasion, he says, but the former government is "in such disarray right now that I don't think it's likely...
...Tutsi-led rebels appeared to have secured their grip on Rwanda. In the capital, Kigali, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) worked to set up a multiethnic government to rival the Hutu-dominated government, whose officials fled to a corner of the Central African country. U.S. State Department sources told TIME Washington correspondent Ann Simmons that the RPF decided to set up a coalition government because the rebels don't have the numerical strength to run the country alone. "But not everyone's going to take too kindly to it," Simmons added. "A lot of Tutsi have had their families killed...
...Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front threatened to march into a French-controlled security zone in southwestern Rwanda and disarm Hutu militiamen -- unless the 2,000-man French force does it first. The threat came as theRPF seemed on the verge of rolling into the zone, the last territory not under its control. The Tutsis reportedly have set upa new government with a moderate Hutu as prime minister, even as the old Hutu cabinet tried to operate out of a half-empty luxury hotel.parpar
France's 2,000-man peacekeeping force nervously guarded the last piece of Rwandan turf unclaimed by surging Tutsi rebels -- a "safety zone" designed to protect fleeing majority Hutus. A day after it took the capital, Kigali, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) said France is using the humanitarian zone in southwest Rwanda to protect the losing Hutu government, which the RPF blames for thousands of atrocities. While the rebels prepared late Tuesday to set up a government in the capital and declare a unilateral ceasefire, TIME Paris reporter Bruce Crumley says, the French are downplaying the chance of conflict...