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...symbolic guilt represented by Cyangugu's stadium was more potent than any reassurances the ministers could offer. Before the speeches had concluded, 2,000 more Hutu, convinced that they would be killed by the new government if they stayed in Rwanda, were already trudging across the border to the Zairean town of Bukavu...
...past few weeks, nearly 100,000 Hutu squatters have descended on this obscure Zairean border post, transforming the stretch of road between the customs gates and the town of Bukavu into a slow-moving river of humanity. At night, refugees occupy virtually every open spot along the highway, lighting their cooking fires in front of houses, sleeping on lawns and in vacant lots. Beyond the town, 320,000 more refugees have set up home in filthy, sprawling & camps. The human wave, augmented each day by new arrivals, is rapidly overwhelming the resources of a town that cannot even boast...
...m.p.h., into Jupiter's dense atmosphere, Steve Maran, an understandably elated NASA astronomer, called the sight "the greatest one-two-three punch of all time." Meanwhile, Filippo Grandi, director of emergency aid for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, surveyed the unimaginable conditions around Goma, % the sleepy Zairean border town that had suddenly filled with over a million terrified Rwandans. More than a million other refugees, also without food, running water, sanitation and medical facilities, were crowding into other locations. The understandably despairing Grandi said, "We're talking about four sites that are the biggest refugee camps ever...
Agreed. But to have a group of pro-Palestinian organizations and anti-Israel speakers debate Israeli policy unlikely to accomplish that. It's akin to having a board of Christian fundamentalists discuss the legality of abortion, or having Zairean leader Sese Seko Mobutu speak about peace in Africa, for that matter. Although all views should be heard, treating such a forum as an academic pursuit would make a mockery of the term. To lend Harvard's credibility to a conference so imbalanced in its approach, so determined to push a particular point of view rather than to give...
While serving as the Times' Nairobi bureau chief, Lamb chronicled eight wars that raged across the continent, involving 15 African nations. He reported on corrupt Zairean president Mobutu, who has enshrined "Mobutuism" as his nation's official philosophy, and on Idi Amin, who for eight years ruled Uganda under a system in which "human flesh was cheaper than beef...