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Article: French Troops Race To Rescue of Tutsis; 1st Effort to Protect Rwandan Civilians
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- The Washington Post
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- July 1, 1994
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French troops in Rwanda on a humanitarian mission flew
seriously wounded Tutsi tribesmen by helicopter to safety tonight
and undertook to protect hundreds more from threat of attack by Hutu
militiamen.
The decision to protect Tutsi refugees - carried out by troops
who dug trenches and mounted machine guns around their encampment -
marked the first time since France's Operation Turquoise began eight
days ago that French troops have taken steps to defend groups of
civilians threatened by the civil war and tribal slaughter that
since the April 6 death of Rwanda's Hutu president have cost
hundreds of thousands of lives.
Most of the victims have been Tutsis, killed by loosely
organized Hutu ...