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...1930s, and still more being driven across the border by violence at the time of Rwandan independence in 1959. Since then Hutu of Rwandan ancestry have outnumbered both Tutsi immigrants and indigenous tribes. This imbalance, along with a government decree stripping Rwandan immigrants and their descendants of Zairian citizenship, spawned tension that flared into fighting in 1993. That conflict pitted Hutu against indigenous Hunde tribesmen and was marked by gruesome rituals, with Hunde sometimes eating the hearts of their victims to gain strength and Hutu returning the favor...
Then came the exodus of more than 1 million Rwandans in 1994. Militiamen and members of the defeated Hutu army, furious at losing their war with Tutsi rebels, soon joined with their Zairian Hutu brethren and began killing Zairian Tutsi. Their objective, observers believe, is a "Hutuland" on Zairian soil that would provide a safe haven for refugees and a base for ongoing armed incursions into Rwanda...
Scientists had suspected that the disease, which killed 245 in the Zairian town of Kikwit last year, was transmitted to humans from chimpanzees or other forest creatures. Thanks to the latest outbreak, that theory now looks pretty solid. But where is the virus coming from? Chimps seem to be as susceptible as people to the pathogen, so it's unlikely that they can harbor it for long periods of time...
...Zairian health officials said 97 people have died from the Ebola virus so far. One of the country's leading virologists, Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfun, who helped identify the virus in 1976, criticized the government's quarantines and roadblocks as ineffective. On Saturday the quarantine on the Kikwit region was officially lifted...
...REPORT on Robertson's relief and development efforts in Zaire. I made five trips to that country to help set up and organize Robertson's farm and feeding projects that would become the African Development Co. It is more than difficult to get cooperation from all sectors of various Zairian political and governmental divisions. Robertson has persevered. He has invested his time, his talent and his financial resources in Zaire. Robertson is personally funding the African Development Co. to the tune of more than $2 million. At least 2,000 Zairians have received regular jobs; eight medical clinics currently function...