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Article: Dysentery imperils refugees 30,000 Rwandans expected to die
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 1, 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 yesterday.
They made their assessments as the first of about 3,000 US troops
arrived in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Within a few hours, the 85
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 US involvement, Defense
Secretary William Perry stopped briefly at the ...