European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 53, no. 97 50c saturday july 23,1994 d 8693 a a absolutely 10o percent not guilty a . Says a see Page 2clinton sets military Airlift to Aid rwandan refugees Washington a president Clinton on Friday ordered a round the clock military Airlift of supplies and Medicine to confront hunger and plague among rwandan refugees. He said the crisis was claiming one life a minute. A the flow of refugees across Rwanda a Borders has now created what could be the worlds worst humanitarian crisis in a generation a Clinton told a news conference in the White House briefing room. He put a Price tag of More than $100 million on the expanded Relief efforts. Clinton on thursday had announced that $41.5 million in Aid will be added to $109 million that had been pledged earlier. The Airlift operation will be based out of Rhein main a Germany the Pentagon said. Private Aid experts have charged that the administration jailed to recognize the magnitude of the rwandan crisis. The administrations new efforts include establishment of an a Airlift Hub in neighbouring Uganda that . Military forces will use As a staging area for the 24-hour shipment of supplies to rwandan refugees in the Region. Clinton also galled for a a full contingent of . Peacekeepers to be sent to Rwanda to provide Security for civilians who want to return to their Homeland. The . Goal Clinton said is to re Lieve the suffering As quickly As possible and to enable the Safe return of refugees to Rwanda where rebel forces have routed the Hutu government that directed widespread massacres of the minority Tutsi. Clinton said he had directed the Pentagon to expand Airlift capacity to facilitate 24-hour delivery of emergency goods to the refugee Camps in Goma and Bukavu see Airlift on Page 4going to to help Camps by Mark Kinkade staff writer a a a a. A. A the . European come is establishing a Forward operations base in Zaire to provide humanitarian assistance to refugees fleeing violence in Rwanda according to a command statement Friday. An initial assessment team arrived thursday in Goma Zaire to determine How to help the refugees. French troops Are protecting a .-established Safe zone in Zaire which Borders Rwanda. Nearly 1 million refugees have flooded four Camps in the zone said . Spokesman Ron Redmond in Geneva. Nearly 500,000 people have been killed in brutal warfare Between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes of Rwanda following the april 6 death of rwandan president Juvenal Hab Sarimana. The United nations estimates at least 3 million rwandans have fled to neighbouring countries since the civil War began. Redmond said 1,000 refugees died thursday and at least 1,000 More were expected to die Friday. A team of 24 Neucom representatives left Friday for Goma to help establish a joint task Force near the refugee Camps said spokesman cmdr. Ron Morse. The task Force initially based in Stuttgart Germany will come under the command of . Army Brig. Gen. Jack p. Nix jr., who Heads the Southern european see Zaire on Page 4 a rwandan worker carries the body of a child from the Munagi refugee Camp near Goma Zaire on Friday. There s someone dying Here every minute aps amps by Michelle Paul the associated press Goma Zaire a the dead and dying Lay everywhere Friday. Cholera and other diseases swept like a scythe through the squalor. Food was scarce and water was polluted. The steadily deteriorating conditions in the sprawling Camps that sprung up Here have driven Many of the More than 1 million rwandan refugees into despairing passivity and pushed others to the Edge. A Man found alive Friday in a Halfacre of bodies wailing to be buried refused to leave the dead apparently sure he would end up there anyway. Shouting and Yelling he was manhandled out of the Field. A woman drank from a can put it Down then moved it because it could not stand upright on the outstretched Arm of the dead Man beside her. Near the corpses head a child squatted to defecate. Weakened by exhaustion malnutrition and terror the refugees Are dying of cholera at a rate of at least 1,000 a Day Relief workers say. Others fall victim to dysentery measles and a Host of other diseases. A How can we count there a someone dying Here every minute a said Bernard mag azide a zairian who was organizing the removal of bodies from Munagi the Camp at the Center of the cholera epidemic. At a mass graveside a traffic Jam built up thursday As trucks loaded with bodies waited their turn to dump corpses. A a it a been like this All afternoon. There Are at least 40 bodies in each truck a said a French Soldier at the scene. As Relief agencies pleaded with governments to Speed up Relief a group of . Military officers arrived in Goma on Friday aboard a Lear Jet to discuss . Plans to rebuild runways and roads to help the shipment of Aid. The refugees belong to Rwanda a Hutu majority whose militias Are accused of slaughtering hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi people since Rwanda a president a Hutu died in a mysterious plane crash april 6. They fled the Advance of the Tutsi see dying on Page 4