Tag: Hutus

  • RETURNING TO RUINS: Rwandan Refugees Find War’s Debris

     by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Monday, August 1, 1994 KIGALI. Rwanda – Thousands of Rwandan refugees returning home yesterday from camps in Zaire found their towns torn up by civil war. About 700 refugees riding into the capital in an United Nations truck convoy yesterday faced a city battered by three…

  • Rwanda: Critical, Stabilizing

    by MICHAEL 0. ALLEN in Rwanda and GENE MUSTAIN in New York, Daily News Staff Writers KIGALI, Rwanda–The heartbeat of this nearly terminal country thumped a little louder yesterday. The war ravaged capital city, as most of the country has little portable water, few working phones or toilets and hardly any electricity–but people were beginning…

  • Rwanda’s story

    I have been reading stories in newspapers and magazines lately about the anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. I was in South Africa in early spring covering the first all-race elections in that theretofore benighted nation when I got news of the atrocities in Rwanda. Nelson Mandela had been released from decades of imprisonment and…

  • Cold comfort

    Transcript: “It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep. But there’ s a phone in the White House and it is ringing. something is happening in the world your vote will decide who answers that call. whether it is someone who already knows the world’s leaders, knows the military someone tested and ready to…