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Article: Dysentery epidemic expected to claim 30,000 more lives of Rwandan refugees. (Originated from Boston Globe)
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- July 31, 1994
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GOMA, Zaire _ Thriving in the unsanitary conditions of the refugee camps here, a dysentery epidemic that will probably claim 30,000 more lives is ravaging the Rwandan refugees, health officials said Sunday.
Their grim assessment came as the first of about 3,000 American troops arrived in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Within a few hours, the soldiers had restored power to the mortar-bombed airport. That will allow round-the-clock operations for 25 aid and military flights a day in the relief effort to feed millions of Rwandans driven from their homes by civil war and massacres.
In a visit that dramatized growing U.S. involvement, Defense Secretary William Perry stopped ...