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...hunger and the sickness conspire to kill as many as possible, but the hate still works as well. Hutu continue to attack Tutsi in the Goma camps. These bodies are different -- not passive, wasting corpses, but twisted wrecks of crushed skulls and flaking blood. A Tutsi woman is accused of brewing poison tea and giving it to 60 Rwandan soldiers, killing them all. She is beaten to death. One group of Hutu fall upon a Tutsi man along the road to the airport, beat him senseless, then lay him on his stomach and stomp on his spine until it snaps...
...with a rock in a fight over food. "The food is not enough," he says. "I want to go home." And still there is no safety. Early last week relief workers spotted a Hutu soldier going from tent to tent with a grenade in his hand, looking for Tutsi children to kill...
...fact, relief officials counter, the Tutsi victors showed great restraint in their conduct of the four-year civil war and their prescriptions for peace. "The one remarkable thing that we've seen is enormous discipline by the R.P.F. and the Tutsi who have stayed inside Rwanda," says Peter McDermott, senior emergency officer at UNICEF. In a gesture of reconciliation last week, the R.P.F. named moderate Hutu as President and Prime Minister, though the real power seems to be in the hands of R.P.F. General, and now Vice President, % Paul Kagame, who masterminded the military victory. More than half the government...
...Tutsi leaders did call on the French to arrest members of the old Hutu government who had escaped by helicopter into the safe haven, so they could be charged with war crimes. But the French, who had long propped up Habyarimana's regime, refused to turn on their former allies, saying that they were waiting for U.N. guidelines on how to handle war criminals. "All the criminals are now outside the country in the camps," an aid worker contended. "And you can bet the R.P.F. is going to screen them all before they are let back...
...fact the refugees include both the swaggering remnants of the Hutu army and the civilians, Hutu and Tutsi alike, on whom the armed men prey. Many Hutu militiamen were renegades, their drinking and raping and viciousness tolerated by army officers. As relief workers struggled to get food to the spreading camps, the Hutu, equipped with cars and radios, kept track of where the next food distribution would occur and raced to get there first. The militia, many of them drunk or stoned on marijuana, stopped convoys to demand bribes and a portion of the supplies, wildly firing their weapons...