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What they would do was vague: "facilitate" delivery of food and the voluntary repatriation of the refugees. How they would do that was equally unspecified. About 1,000 U.S. troops would take over the airport at Goma, the Zairean city nearest the fighting, held by Zairean Tutsi rebels. They would open a three-mile corridor between Goma and the Rwanda border to protect refugees walking home--though the border is in fact only a few hundred yards away. An additional 2,000 or 3,000 Americans would go to Rwanda and Uganda to airlift in supplies and the other...
...town at the edge of the lake--no longer called Costermansville, but Bukavu--was anything but idyllic last week. And the bodies were piling up. The streets of the Zairean provincial capital were patrolled by Tutsi rebels. Bukavu's Catholic Archbishop was ambushed and murdered. And the town's "very fine airstrip" had become a fulcrum in an undeclared war between Rwanda and Zaire, a conflict that could precipitate the dismemberment of Zaire, a country the size of Western Europe. Caught in the cross fire were more than half a million Hutu refugees who have been huddling in squalid camps...
...have been living in eastern Zaire for more than 200 years, the Banyamulenge have achieved enviable success in a number of lucrative ventures, especially mining. This has made them wealthy and enabled them to arm themselves lavishly, but it has also opened them up to scapegoating by local Zairean demagogues eager to augment their power by whipping up resentment against a people they still see as outsiders. Adding poisonously to this mix was the Hutu refugees' deep hatred for the Tutsi. The Hutu immediately began raiding the mines and goading Zairean leaders to launch pogroms against the Banyamulenge. The Zairean...
...least 40,000 refugees are now trying to fleeBurundi, fearing the Central African country's growing wave of genocide. The refugees, many of them Zairean expatriates, others members of the warring Hutu and Tutsi tribes, balanced mattresses, suitcases and sacks of food on their heads, crowding roads to see if the border reopens Saturday. Ethnic cleansing that has swept through Burundi in the past 18 months escalated last week when extremists on both sides killed hundreds of people in a purge. But TIME State Department correspondent Sandra Burton reports that U.S. officials do not yet believe the pogroms will reach...
...declared on Thursday. "Indeed, for the credibility of the government, we have to occupy all Rwanda." Although Twagiramungu pledged the army would not seek revenge, his remarks only deepened the alarm of Hutu inside the enclave. The fears of those camped in the French zone intensified on Friday when Zairean paratroopers shut down the border, choking off the flow of refugees attempting to make it across the rusty bridge before the escape hatch closed. While thousands more stacked up behind them, Zaire announced that it would accept no more Rwandans until someone finds another country of asylum for the exiled...