European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes crisis in Rwanda tuesday july 26,1994 a rwandan orphan watches sunday As a Relief worker carries a child a body from the sos Village near coma  Page 1recent weeks overwhelming the Bush country a sanitation and resources and creating widespread disease As the exodus of biblical proportions has turned into a plague of equal magnitude. The bodies of those who will never return to Rwanda lie along the roads and in the Camps by the hundreds and sometimes thousands. A a it a certainly the biggest mass of people in be Ever seen in one area a said Lancelot Barry a British humanitarian worker with a world food program. Assisting with african famine Relief off and on for 25 years Barry had been in Mozambique when he was called to Goma last week to help with the rwandan crisis. The rwandan refugee disaster with shortages of Safe water worsening a cholera epidemic could evolve into a famine if world organizations Don t act quickly he said. The refugees have spread out and away from Gama somewhat in recent Days and some began returning Home sunday helping to relieve the stress of overcrowding. But Barry said that Means food trucks must drive farther on roads blocked by thousands and thousands of homeless people Many of whom will never return Home. By Michelle Faul the associated press Goma Zaire a a mama mama mama a the heart rending cries Echo everywhere from the children s Home where lost kids crowd 15 or 20 to a bed from Fields of volcanic Rock where refugees lie listlessly and die in a shroud of smoke from cooking fires from streets where toddlers wander aimlessly alone. There a no one to answer the cries of these children. They Are the newest casualties of Rwanda a tribal bloodletting which killed an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 people and led More than 1.5 million to flee to Zaire in a matter of Days. Many of so called unaccompanied children Are too Young or too traumatized to provide hints of their ident titles or relate tales of the horrors they have suffered. A some Are orphans. But most just got lost and we Hope we can save them to reunify them with their parents a said Osei Kofi a spokesman for Unicof. Kofi collects these solitary children often found walking dazed through Goma. He started his rounds sunday at the Gates of the Airport and soon was surrounded by 18 children of All Ages. A Young woman came up with a baby that looked no More than a month old and tried to press it into Kofil a arms he resisted at first thinking the woman was Only seeking help for her own child. A but its not mine and i already have one to look after a the woman said turning to show the baby strapped to her Back. She said the other infants Mother had died beside her that morning on the Roadside by the Airport. Kofi took the child. As he turned to the truck another woman grabbed him and held up another baby. A take mine take mine a the woman sobbed. A a she la Only die  this time Kofi declined before climbing into the Back of a truck with the other children he had collected. A babies first a he cautioned As he passed around High protein cookies and bottles of water. The liquid dribbled from the Mouth of the baby orphan who tried to suckle on the bottle lid As he would from his mothers breast. Kofi made two More stops gathering 26 children. A a it a a slow Day a he said. A yesterday we got More than 1,000.�?� at the overcrowded orphanage he rushed out to assure manager Yvette  no he was not bringing yet More children to her. A better not a she retorted. A yesterday i thought i was going to crack  the orphanage called the sos Village had 150 orphans before the refugee crisis. On sunday More than 4,300 children crowded the Beds tents dispensary and More than one acre of pitted volcanic Rock and Black dust. None of the children play. In one pile of dust a naked boy covered in sores cried without ceasing a mama mama Kofi went Over and gave a drink of water to the boy who looked about 4. A a this is Dudu a Kofi said. A a he a a real fighter and he a going to  he said he named the boy using the a swahili word for insect a because that a what he looked like when i found him and i thought for sure he was not even going to survive the drive . Quot a French military truck pulled up and unloaded Blue plastic sheeting tin cups milk Rice and cans of sardines. Such donations go beyond the mandate of the French contingent Here but one French officer said a what can you do but help when you see misery like this a Kofi stopped by the dispensary where 28 children died saturday then headed for a new temporary Home for lost children that Unicof has set up. A actually children have been doing rather Well Here despite the catastrophic proportions of the emergency he explained on the Way. Children normally Are the first to die in refugee crises. That has not happened Here Kofi said because Rwanda had a Model vaccination program that protected 90 percent of its children from measles and other diseases. Not Many of the bodies that have lined the roads of Goma in the past week have been children. And Only a Small percentage of the 8,000 corpses buried in a mass grave in the town on Friday and saturday have been the tiny bundles wrapped in cloth that indicate a baby has died. Germany increasing Aid planes Bonn Germany apr the government announced monday that it was doubling Aid for Rwanda shirely threatened refugees to 100 million Marks $63 million and contributing two More planes to the Airlift. Chief government spokesman Dieter Vogel said that Germany would concentrate on delivering and setting up water purification units and providing sewage equipment for refugee Camps. In addition to a Boeing 707 flying Aid missions to Goma Zaire the Luftwaffe will put two Ransall transport lanes into action with Aid deliveries Ogel said. I i he said the governments emergency Aid Agency was sending 10 water purification units while the German army was sending another unit plus the personnel to keep the machines running. The German red Cross was also sending water purification equipment. A red Cross spokeswoman in Bonn Marita Janzer said germans have donated a total of 8.6 million Marks $5.4 million since May for rwandan refugees. She said donations Rose considerably in the Wake of a the awful news from  israelis setting up Hospital Jerusalem apr an israeli military medical team the largest Ever sent abroad landed in Goma Zaire on the Border of Rwanda and began setting up a Field Hospital to care for thousands of sick refugees. The delegation is headed by environment minister Yossi Sarid and includes Brig. Gen. Michael Weiner the army a chief medical officer. Sarid told Israel radio that seven out of the eight Hercules cargo planes sent had landed by mid afternoon and that the team hoped to have the Hospital operating by Midnight. The foreign ministry said the 80-member delegation was the largest Relief team Israel has Ever sent abroad. Israel just recently sent a crack Rescue team to help dig out victims of the bombing of a jewish Center in Argentina. The United nations has asked the International Community to join in the Effort to save the More than 1.5 million starving rwandan refugees crammed together in squalid Camps on the zairian Border. As Many As 11,000 have died in recent Days of hunger dehydration and disease. A it is terrible much More terrible than expected a Sarid said in an interview in Zaire broadcast on Israel radio. A when you see it the conclusion is that it is the Gate of hell or. Hell