European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 28, 1994 a crisis in Rwanda the stars and stripes Page 5 zairian boy scouts Bear Brunt of gruesome duty r 10 Mill of the 1.2 million refugees in Goma area at test 16,000 have died of disease and at least 20,000 have returned to Rwanda. Goma Zaire apr like everywhere else the boy scouts of Zaire Are prepared ready to help wherever they can. Here their Good deed is to collect bodies by the thousands and dump them into a pit. From Early morning until dark kids of Little league age struggle to shove gruesome bundles into trucks it sometimes the bundles Are tiny easily tossed onto the pile. But the killer Here is cholera not the malnutrition of infants and More often the victims Are adults. A it is Only Normal in t it a asked Jean Wauters a retired belgian importer wearing a rolled kerchief who supervises 500 Young volunteers. A scouts do their  Oyer 10 Days the youngsters and older sex Scot its had collected 7,000 bodies outside Goma and their work is Only beginning. Aid officials say As Many As 80,000 could die before the epidemic runs its course. As Many As 16,000 had died by tuesday. French soldiers pick up corpses in Goma where they have scooped out a huge common grave in a banana Grove. Some european volunteers help. Mostly boy scouts do the Job. Bodies Are everywhere dotting City streets lining the roads out of town and stacked like logs in the refugee Camps. Some Are wrapped in Bright coloured sarongs. More Are in Woven Straw sleeping Mats. One was boxed neatly in a cardboard food Aid Container strapped As if for mailing. A Large Label read a hard  a i must do this a explained Oscar Benda 20, As he helped two boys hoist a Corpse onto a battered Blue Toyota flatbed. A the disease might get me next and in a few Days this could be  like the others he was out of uniform. He wore a scout kerchief with a Beret pulled Low Over his delicate features. A rwandan he fled with More than 1 million other huts to Zaire when Tutsi rebel troops routed the Hutu dominated army and took Power in Kigali. Huts now fear revenge for the Slaughter of perhaps a half million people most of them Tutsi at the hands of the army and Hutu militias. Orphaned at an Early age Bendas Only Home was the school he attended in gis Enyi a ghost town just across the Border. In Goma his family is the boy scouts. Kisi mba Udondo wears a regulation shirt with a boy scouts of Zaire Over the left pocket. The right pocket Patch says Quot cub scout a but he is 34. People Call him Mosquito. A we Are Here to help people a he said. A this is our Good  Active scouts Are Ages 12 to 17, but Mosquito is a troop Leader in the alumni association. One of the members at 72, is heaving bodies with the rest. Zaire v Bimba refugee Camp jul mount Naira Gonna a a Active Volcano Mug a w  1 a a Senyi Rwanda Aid begins flowing to refugees after a jumbled Start to the Relief Effort food Medicine and clean water Are now arriving at refugee Camps in Zaire. . Soldiers set up the first water purification system tuesday and More systems were arriving. Air Bridge from Germany truck route v. Kenya air Bridge Tanzania 100km a we j. Castalo Eila i Glanto Perry flying to Africa to assess operation Washington apr president Clinton is dispute ing defense Secretary William Perry to Africa this weekend to assess How Many . Service members will be needed for refugee Relief efforts in Rwanda Pentagon officials said wednesday. Perry is expected to visit . Units working at the current Hub in Entebbe Uganda and then Fly on to the refugee site in Goma Zaire Pentagon officials said. Perry is expected to take Gen. George a. Joulwan. Head of the . European come with him. The african operation Falls under Joulwan s command. One senior military officer in the Pentagon disputed reports that As Many As 2,000 . Soldiers would be Landing in Kigali Rwanda within a Day or so. A that s not going to happen a the officer said speaking on condition of anonymity. A the officer said that a 12-member . Military team is in Kigali attempting to assess the Long term potential for bolstering the . Operation in the Region but that the team will be reporting Back to . Military officials in Europe and the Pentagon first. . Officials in Kigali had said earlier that they were expecting the first american forces to arrive in the rwandan capital today to prepare for. A massive air lift of Relief supplies. Shaharyar Khan the special representative for the . Secretary general in Rwanda had said up to 2,000 . Troops were expected to be committed to the Relief Mission in Kigali. The conditions at the Airport in Kigali Are rough at Best with no night Landing capability further putting into question any new insertion of . Forces the senior officer pointed out. A Brian Atwood the chief coordinator for the . Relief Effort said . Force will stay in Africa As Long As it takes to save millions of rwandan refugees and help them on their Road  Aid flights to Central Africa a delayed chief says by j. King Cruger Northern Italy Bureau Aviano a Italy a a reshuffling of Relief priorities coupled with the need to obtain some diplomatic clearances has led to the delay of several . Military Aid flights from Aviano a to Central if Rica. Several Relief flights including that of a giant c-5a Galaxy transport were postponed late tuesday and Early wednesday according to . Army col. James r. Mcdonough commander of the Southern european task forces inf brigade from which 1,300 troops Are expected to deploy to the troubled Region. A what we Are seeing is a queuing up of priorities a Mcdonough said wednesday at his temporary Headquarters at Aviano. A we have a Small Advance party Here and a similar number of soldiers already Down in Africa with the task Force. The chances Are better than 50-50 that we will Fly out tonight. In a waiting for my turn said Mcdonough whose brigade is based at Vicenza about a two hour drive Southwest of Aviano. The Force Mcdonough expected to it a take with him wednesday night include the Crew members of an american c-5 Galaxy transport stand monday to deliver food to starving rwandan refugees near the command and control secure to Anh g beside their aircraft at Moran a Spain the plane was waiting Border town of Goma Zaire. Ply elements a waiting to help