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Article: Tutsis Fear Transfer Of Foreign Troops In Rwandan Safe Zone
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- The Washington Post
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- August 18, 1994
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With France vowing to pull out its troops by Monday, fear has
gripped the thousands of Tutsi families who sought protection here
in the French-established "humanitarian safe zone" in southwestern
Rwanda.
"The militia is still here," said Silas Munyankindi, a
32-year-old father of two, scanning the lush green hills and tea
plantations that surround this guarded Tutsi camp for signs of rival
Hutus. "The leaders have already left. But the ones with the
machetes are still out there."
Like many of the nearly 12,000 members of Rwanda's Tutsi
minority camped here, Munyankindi came here from nearby Cyangugu,
where he and thousands of others spent two long, miserable months
crammed into a ...