European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes vol.53, no. 109 500 thursday August 4,1994 d 8693 a refugees afraid to return or j 1 misery preferred of risks expected Back in Rwanda Goma Zaire a despite the death and misery in their wretched Camps in Eastern Zaire nearly 1 million fear isl refugees Are ignoring . Pleas to return to Rwanda. Officials of the . Refugee Agency met with elders and Community leaders among the refugees tuesday in an a tempt to get them to persuade their people to return to their a was vet unsuccessful Ray Wilkinson the . High commissioner for refugees said s coing to be a massive Effort to convince them. Wilkinson said an estimated 22�00 refugees from the Camps near Goma had returned to Rwanda through official _ Box crossing Points. Up to 90,000 May have returned but that is a Small Tracton of the hundreds of thousands packed in squalor in the Camps and dying by the hundreds every Day of cholera dysentery and t ther disease maj. Gen. Romeo Dallaire commander of , forces in Rwanda speaking wednesday in Kigali the capital said the returning refugees have slowed to a trickle. Most of the refugees Are huts the ethnic majority who fled Rwanda in Felt of retribution from a Tutsi led rebel army for the Slaughter of at least 350,000 people mainly to Sis from april to july. The United nations and human rights see return on Page 2 signs 6f Progress seen air Goma crisis by Effie Bathen staff writer Goma Zaire . Air Force capt. Dav Burgess was supposed to do a Quick in and out for the Airlift control a when he arrived in Goma on july 22. Twelve Days later he " was still in Goma an had the same clothes on his Back. A few Days after hear Rived Burgess moved onto a heavy duty Fork lift which Becam his temporary Home for Sev eral slept in it. I drove it 20 hours a Day unload ing goods Iron cargo planes he said. He did what had to Bedone Burgess said As he see Goma on Page 2 b Joulwan says Mission s top priority is to stabilize conditions m Uganda May be in store for cafes h truckers find that Relief Effort actually works h red Cross appeals for donations to help refugees Page .7 v?/.rt y Vij 1 site Fri la a inside today a of a Nafin child Waits for water tuesday next to american soldiers at a refugee Camp North of Goma child Waits Lor Waier a in the country so refugees can get clean water the marriage of Michae. Jackson and Lisa mane Presley combines the fortunes of two of the biggest empires in music history. Seeking bargains Aleurone s Rea markets .ft.-. Pt"j.j-----3- win to " re Zzz gripes Magazine for grow is
