European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Refugees resort to whatever building materials they can find to protect them from the cold nights in Goma Zaire. Refugees in Zaire hunger for life in a crowd of men hurrying to unload Hundred Pound sacks off trucks at the Kib Umba Refuge Ecamp a Small boy on his Knees put pinches of Maize flour into a  pulled the White meal from weeds and Black volcanic dust where it had leaked out of holes in the sacks. While the men Laboured to feed More than 350,000 rwandan refugees clinging to life on a volcanic Hill Side above Goma Zaire the boy continued his tiny Harvest. Hundreds of hungry people circled the roped off area near the trucks. Children with rosaries around their necks asked for biscuits. Women with Cotton skirts asked for food with empty hands and whispers. One woman with two babies the same size asked with her eyes. Since Sunrise the red Cross which struggles to manage the Camp distributed More than 40 tons of High protein biscuits and 90 tons of special Maize flour. The Relief workers gave it to the Hutu prefects or elders. They in turn divided it Between sub prefects for further distribution sometimes local Bosses tended to exaggerate How much food is needed said Andrew Hall a spokes Man for the Relief Agency. Aid workers must use judgment he explained. Some of that judgment comes from watching the commotion at the trucks. Voices Are raised. So Are wooden Sticks the size of baseball bats when allot ments Are out of line. As frustration builds so does the potential for food riots. Security is a problem but some Relief sgt Don Beardsley out of Kaiserslautern Germany chats with refugees. A Volunteer feeds sick babies in a Kib Umba tent. Workers carry bigger Sticks. Local Hutu leaders organized their people who Are mostly Farmers and peasants. Many Are the same elders who led their people across the Border after losing a bloody civil War to Tutsi rebels. An Esti mated 200,000 disarmed military aged men Are in a Camp farther North. At Kib Umba refugees have fashioned grass and Sod huts with neighbors living next to neighbors. Some Are crowded almost Elbow to Elbow at the Edge of the Joad smothering in smoke from Cook. Fires. Others often with a few Skinny goats indicating wealth live More spread out up High near the tree line. " Many Are beginning to use the opposite Side of the narrow Road where hundreds of their family Mem Bers were rolled into mass Graves As a designated defecating area. And Many Are dutifully bringing up their dead to the Edge of the Road so that the body boys can pick them up for burial. Hall said he was on Rwanda s Eastern Border at the Benlaco Camp near Ngara Tanzania three weeks earlier. With 460,000 refugees in that area it was the largest refugee crisis in red Cross history Hall said. Then More than 1 million Hutu refugees Crosse the Western Border into Zaire in less than a week. This makes Benlaco look like a picnic Hall said. Officials estimated that 60,000 latrines were needed to Stop the spread of disease. Only about 2,000 had been bulldozed out of the lava Rock even then Relief workers say the Rainy season due by the end of August will bring on disease of biblical proportions. In the midst of it All it is difficult to focus on the fact that each of those who   Page 6 sunday August 21,1994