Category: New York Daily News
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SPECIAL REPORT ON RWANDA: 1 Dies Every Minute
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Tuesday, July 26, 1994 GOMA, Zaire – The skies here were darkened by aircraft yesterday bearing desperately needed food and medical supplies to Rwandan refugees dying at a rate of one per minute in the squalid camps below. But the water purifiers needed to combat the…
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RWANDAN CRISIS-HORROR OF THE CHILDREN: Thousands Are Dying, More Are Orphaned
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Wednesday, July 27, 1994 GOMA. ZAIRE – Her tiny torso was wrapped in dirty rags. No one knew her name, where she came from or what became of her parents. She could not have been more than 6 months old. Last week French soldiers at Goma…
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Refugees Are Dying Too Fast to be Buried
by GENE MUSTAIN in New York and MICHAEL O. ALLEN in Goma, Zaire, Daily News Staff Writers | Wednesday July 27, 1994 Aid workers battling death, famine and pestilence of the Rwanda refugee crisis faced a new problem yesterday–a shortage of graves. The raging cholera epidemic in the squalid camps near the border backwater town…
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A Hell Without Fire
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Thursday, July 28, 1994 GOMA, Zaire – The heart of darkness lies beneath a smoky volcano. It starts at the edge of a shimmering lake and stretches across a few miles of flowering bushes and dark rocky plain, proof of Mount Nyiragongo’s periodic tantrums. It would…
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WEST HIT ON RWANDA: Relief Big Calls Response Weak
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN in Nairobi and RICHARD SISK in Washington, Daily News Staff Writers | Friday, July 29, 1994 United Nations relief officials lashed out yesterday at what they viewed as the timid, pinch-penny response of the U.S. and its allies to the desperate plight of Rwanda’s refugees. All member states of the UN…
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THE ROAD TO KIGALI: Rwandans Trickle Home
Cholera prompts return by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, July 31, 1994 RUBAVU, Rwanda – The road to Kigali yesterday was filled with frustration, anger, sickness and hope that this impoverished nation would step back from the abyss of ethnic hatred. Rwandans, young and old, sick and healthy, were trickling back into…
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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…
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Rwandan Leaders vow to punish ‘genocide’
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Wednesday, August 3, 1994 KIGALI, Rwanda – Leaders of this war-ravaged nation yesterday said they will execute those responsible for the slaughter of up to 500,000 Rwandans in ethnic fighting. “Those who willingly carried out genocide deserve no less than the death penalty,” Rwanda’s President Pasteur…
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Envoy’s Search for Justice Shows Rwanda’s Dark Side
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, August 7, 1994 KIGALI, Rwanda–Sylvestre Kamali finally broke down. Imprisoned for 21 days, he was tired, hurting and badly in need of a bath. A career diplomat, he has served his country in all branches, including terms as vice president of the Supreme Court and…
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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…