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...temporarily suspended its Rwandan refugee repatriation effort in the camps surrounding Goma, Zaire. The move came after Hutu extremists assaulted a group of big-game trackers who had asked to be taken back to their homes in Rwanda's celebrated mountain gorilla reserve. The violence escalated when Zairian gangs looted aid supplies from an air base near Goma. "We seem to be operating in a virtual state of war," said a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
Rwanda and Zaire -- previously on the outs about how to bring about the return of 1.2 million wary Hutu refugees in Zairian border camps -- agreed to work together to solve the crisis. Senior United Nations officials called the pledge a "big achievement," mainly because it means Zaire might crack down on leaders of Rwanda's ousted Hutu government who are now preventing some refugees in the camps from going home...
...Hutu refugees huddled there, many of whom don't trust their old foes to spare the rod of revenge after Rwanda's civil war. U.N. officials, who had begged France to extend its Rwandan mission, today said the number of Hutus poised to flee to refugee camps across the Zairian border had reached "critical but not yet catastrophic" proportions. U.N. peacekeepers now believe they can effectively replace the French...
...town of Goma. Thousands of Rwandans in the Goma camps protested Thursday against the soldiers, many of whom were unpaid for months and went AWOL to Goma to seek their fortune. About 60 miles to the south today, some 50,000 people reportedly massed across the border from the Zairian city of Bukavu, underscoring relief workers' fears of a new exodus when French troops leave southwest Rwanda in 10 days.RETURN OF THE KING? King Kigeli V. Ndahindurwa, who has not seen his country in more than 30 years, wants to go back to Rwanda now that his Tutsi tribe...
...become too expensive for aid organizations. Relief officials say the contagious, bloody diarrhea is proving resistant to common antibiotics currently in use in the refugee camps, forcing doctors to turn to more sophisticated and expensive medicines. The Veep's wife, Tipper Gore, spent nearly five hours in the largest Zairian refugee camp, Kibumbo, aiding refugees weakened by disease. "They just need someone to hold their hand, love them and hug them," she said. "At least I can do that...