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...Right after that they called me over to a little house, where they told me there was somebody down. It is perhaps the worst thing I saw. His name was Emile Renault, and he had taken a mortar shell in his shoulder. He had a gaping hole from his collarbone to his belt. He wasn't dead -- he was looking around -- but you could see his heart beating and his lungs breathing...
Thousands of Tutsi who took refuge in the Kigali sports stadium were bombarded by grenades and mortar fire. U.N. refugee officials said that each night, armed Hutu with lists of professionals and intellectuals would arrive at the stadium, haul out dozens of Tutsi and execute them in a kind of intellectual ethnic cleansing. Last week 21 orphans and 13 Red Cross workers trying to guard them were murdered: in a scene reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the children were picked out of a group of 500 simply because they looked like Tutsi. There were reports that several priests giving refuge...
Last week he was called to an expository task more complicated than usual. In three separate attacks, the I.R.A. had dropped 12 mortar shells into London's Heathrow Airport. Puzzlingly, none of them exploded. The only damage was to British nerves as flights were canceled and police shut down terminals to conduct security sweeps...
...Heathrow mortar shells ruin those hopes? Not at all, says Adams. The shells came during a "stalemate" in the process, and the attack might "have an accelerating effect upon the British government." Sinn Fein and the I.R.A. still want what they call "clarifications" from Britain before joining any talks. Until that happens, says Adams, "every so often there will be something spectacular to remind the world" that the conflict continues to boil...
...world's busiest international airport, London's Heathrow, came under | attack by mortar fire on two consecutive days. No one was hurt and no aircraft were damaged in the shellings. The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attacks...