European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday August 25, 1994 inside Africa the stars and stripes Page 3 maps cat troops bring Back memories of refugees death despair added baggage by Doyle Tillman. Staff writer " Entebbe Uganda As the soldiers of the 230th my co began returning this week to Germany from Goma Zaire they carried with them the somber Mem ories that last a saw a Man in a Camp hacked to. Death with a Machete said staff sgt. Dennis Terk who headed a Security team for the my unit based in Kaiserslautern Germany. Another Soldier recalled the image of a woman who apparently had had he Throat Slit As she slept. We saw a lot of e saw a lot of deadbodies.1 pfc Philip Guidry dead bodies said pfc. Philip Guidry 21. People were on the streets every where. It was a Madhouse said tent recalling the initial stages of the unit monthlong assignment. When we first got Here we d see 50 to 70 bodies along the Road just Between the Camp arid Goma for sgt. Glenn Lee the vivid Mem ories included a riot in Goma that blocked the water truck Convoy he was accompanying. When the soldiers of the 230th arrive Dat the huge refugee Complex in late july they were the first to provide Security for water purification and distribution operations. Their departure monday came a Day after the operation support Hope join task Force Alpha commander Brig. Gen. Jack p. Nix jr., turned Over . Equipment to . Representative Joe Boutroue. During a Brief Layover in Entebbe some of the Security team talked about their experiences in what has Bee the world s largest refugee Center. We were the first Security team into Goma Beach " said Guidry using a nickname for the sprawling refugee Camp first priority added Terk was to recon the routes and set up clean potable water was available to refugees within 48 hours Guidry said proudly. We provided Convoy Security yer water trucks going to Kib Umba South a rwandan refugee Camp about 15 Miles from Goma he water bottle was the name Terk used for the site his team helped establish on the shores of Lake Kiva where the first reverse osmosis water Purifica Tion unit was set up. The site is about three Miles from Goma s sense of accomplishment was tempered by the Impact of dealing with the mass of humanity in the Kib Umba South Camp. I could t believe Alt the people crammed into that Little area he said. Kib Umba is just the tip of the ice Berg Terk noted. About two Miles beyond the Camp is "k-7," a Camp that by his account is still very primitive. Terk recalled that a . Helicopter had flown Over the Camp and dropped leaflets to encourage refugees t o return to rushed for them the leaflets at first because they thought they were is Dave Dudlo Joel Boutroue a . Representative formally accepts . Military vehicles and equip ment from Brig. Gen. Jack p. Nix or. Far right on sunday in Goma Zaire. Money Lee said. Not very Many seemed very impressed by the message on the leaflets he said. They re not going anywhere said Lee. Instead they re building huts out of Bamboo and grass. They re planning to As the maps pulled out of Goma the did so with mixed emotions some said. They were glad that they had been a Leto help people in need but also were eager to return to Germany. The same feelings were expressed bythe crowds of Zaire residents who Gath ered to watch them depart. Many were waving and cheering Terk said. But there were a few motion ing us to get mob thwarts ape trackers return to Rwanda Goma Zaire a refugees at tacked a group of Gorilla trackers at tempting to return to a famed rwandan research station wednesday forcing the United nations to halt the planned repatriation officials said. A Day earlier five refugees were hacked to death for stealing in a Refuge Ecamp said Ray Wilkinson spokesman for the . High commissioner for ref 250 rwandans including 25 Gorilla trackers and their extended families had set out wednesday for the Kar Soke research Center in Northwestern Rwanda where the late naturalist Dian Fossey studied rare Mountain Goril Las and wrote gorillas in the Mist which later was made into a movie. The trackers had fled the research Cen Ter about a month ago and were Hying Ata zairian Mountaintop Gorilla station near Rugari a town about 27 Miles North of the main refugee Center in Goma they were attacked by Hutu extremists among the refugees in Goma Camps when they came Down from the Mountain to meet . Trucks that were supposed to be waiting for them in Rugari . Officials said. The trucks were late because the Drivers got lost. As the would be returnees waited by the Road a group of about 50 men came and started saying we were traitors accomplice said Leonidas Munya Tara a 23, who was among those hoping to repatriate. The attackers surrounded the trackers leaders hacking at them with machetes and pounding them with rocks Munyan Tarama said. One Man was badly beaten and he was hospitalized Wilkinson said. He said there was a report that five had been taken hostage but officials later said it was unclear what happened to All the people because they scattered into near by banana Groves during the attack. This was to be the biggest organized repatriation but the incident is indeed a big blow Wilkinson said. Although some rwandan trackers had remained at Kar Soke until Early july expatriate researchers abandoned the Cen Ter after fighting in Rwanda started in april. Researchers have been hoping to reopen the Center from which they study the primates who Range a Forest straddling Rwanda Zaire and Uganda. Half the world s remaining 600 Moun Tain gorillas live in that Park and the other half in one farther North in Uganda. Officials of the former rwandan government and its Defeated soldiers who Are some of the 850,000 people living inthe Goma area Camps have threatened to kill anyone returning to the country no ruled by the former rebel rwandan Patri Otic front. There have been a number of deaths and beatings among people advocating a return Home. Most of the refugees Are of the majority Hutu ethnic group who fear that the Tutsi led government will kill them in re Venge for the massacre of an estimated 500,000 mostly Tutsi civilians from april through july. No helps Uganda Feen get jump on future by sue palum Ostaff writer Entebbe Uganda first sgt. Juan Rosano could Tell the ugandan teen was hungry but the solider did t realize that the youth was hungry enough to walk 62 Miles overnight. We had gone to the hotel to eat at the Buffet and i saw this kid staring at us said Rosario of the 55thpersonnel services co in Friedberg Germany. He just kept looking at us eating so i motioned him Over and told him to sit down.". L Over the course of the dinner that Rosano bought for him the 17-year-old fascinated the first sergeant with his knowledge of . History. The boy proudly rattled off every . State and its capital and a few presidents As Well. He had been a High school student until last year when school became too expensive. His father died of aids a year ago he was just so smart and i really Felt for him Rosario said. It bothered me he could t afford the$130 to go to High school for a although he said he was tempted to give the Boythe Money Rosario hesitated. He told the teen that if he could find his Way to the Airport 62 Miles away where the american military was working Rosario would find a Way for him to make some Money. Despite his Promise Rosario was dumbfounded to find the boy waiting patiently outside the hangar Early the next morning. Not knowing what to Tell the boy Rosario gave him his shoe Shine kit. I went around to a few of the Guys and told them he needed to make some Money and they needed to clean up their shoes anyway. You know that boy shined 58 pairs of boots in one Day Rosario prot did made More than enough Money to go to school. He told Rosario he d made More in on Day than he had in six months working 10 hours a Day. Rosario Only saw the boy once More after that Day when he came by to say he would be starting school the next week. He was so grateful for the help he offered Rosario some of his earnings. He was so used to having to pay off people that he could t believe anyone would do something for nothing a Rosario said. For me it was enough to be Able to h6lp someone help himself 7
