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...building, 400 more bodies are piled on one another, the rooms thick with the stench of rotting flesh. One woman and her baby tried to hide in a small pit toilet; they were discovered and hacked to death. "How can I come back here?" exclaims Consolata Mukatwagirimana, a young Tutsi woman of 27 who escaped the massacre six weeks ago that may have left 1,500 dead here and in the surrounding hills. "My family is gone; our neighbors are dead; there is nothing left...
...predominately Tutsi rebel movement that now seems destined to form the next government of bloodstained Rwanda, that is a haunting lament. As they press their advantage against government troops and murderous Hutu militia, the rebels of the Rwandese Patriotic Front are beginning to realize how little of their tiny Central African homeland will be left for them if and when the R.P.F. takes control. Mile upon mile of terraced hillsides and thatch-roofed villages lies deserted. The reek of decomposing bodies and packs of well-fed dogs serve as the only reminders that this was once one of the most...
...fighting broke out in early April. Said a government spokesman last week: "At the moment, we have no willingness to have contact with the so- called government in Kigali, which consists of a gang of murderers." Neither French troops nor French-equipped African troops are acceptable to the mainly Tutsi Rwanda Patriotic Front: France helped arm and train their opponents, the Hutu forces of the late President Juvenal Habyarimana...
...Tutsi rebels continued their advance on the Rwandan capital of Kigali, shelling positions held by the Hutu-dominated Rwandan army. The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a plan that would impose an arms embargo on both sides and send an all-African force to intervene...
...modern military model is the neighborhood gang, brothers and cousins, roaming, rule breaking, terrorizing. "Youth has no future in Rwanda," observes Jean-Claude Willame, professor of African politics at Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain. "To a certain extent, they don't give a damn about those Hutu and Tutsi things. They're paid...