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Ignoring threats of bloodshed from Tutsi rebels, nearly 600 French soldiers in Operation Turquoise advanced several miles into Rwanda from the 2,500-troop base camp in Zaire. A small group of armored vehicles and 40 Foreign Legion paratroopers joined them. The potentially deadly irony of this situation: the French, threatened most directly by Tutsi rebels, are aiming to secure a refugee camp to protect 8,000 Tutsi from the widespread slaughter inflicted by ruling Hutu militias...
...death of the President blew the lid off simmering ethnic and political rivalries in the tiny Central African country. Hutu government soldiers and militia blamed the mainly Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front for shooting down the plane; the rebels and others suspected hawkish extremists within Habyarimana's presidential guard. The same night, the massacres in the streets of Kigali began as Hutu sought revenge. Eight weeks and several hundred thousand lives later, the true cause of the crash is still a mystery...
Advancing Tutsi rebels backed Hutu-dominated government troops into the western parts of Rwanda, forcing them to turn and fight in their first counteroffensive in the grisly two-month-old civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands. The latest bloodshed included the first confirmed massacre carried out by the rebels: the slayings of several Roman Catholic clergy, including the Archbishop of Kigali...
Negotiators for mainly Tutsi rebels and Hutu government forces met twice without successfully establishing a truce in the two-month-old civil war in Rwanda. The rebels continued to tighten their stranglehold on the capital of Kigali and pushed their assault on Gitarama, where the government has relocated. Meanwhile, the Vatican appealed to the U.N. Security Council to establish a "safe area" -- the same concept tried with so little success in Bosnia -- around a large religious complex offering sanctuary to 38,000 Tutsis...
...Tutsi rebels advance, the country's agony stands revealed...