European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday August 28. 1994 crisis in Rwanda the stars and stripes Page 3 Relief workers Home attacked Goma Zaire a unidentified attackers stoned a House where six for eign Aid officials live and fired one Shotat the building raising new Security con Cerns for expatriate workers Aidin rwandan refugees a . Spokesman said saturday. None of the workers was injured said Ray Wilkinson spokesman for the . High commissioner for refugees. He said that the attack Friday night was the first on the living quarters of any of the estimated 800 foreign Aid workers in Theoma area and that the attack sub sided before any harm was about 850,000 rwandans Are in Camp around Goma. The refugees Are mostly ethnic huts who fled Rwanda Fearin retribution for the 500,000 Tutsi killed in three months of civil War. The attack on the care Home a tin roofed Bungalow beside Lake Kiva occurred at 8 30 . Friday said chief care official Marc Gagnon. After Sev eral stones fell care contacted the Zai Rian government which sent a platoon of troops. No arrests were made. This attack has raised lots of concern and i have asked my staff to take precaution said Gagnon a Canadian. He said he did not know who the at tackers were. But in Goma zairian and even zairian soldiers routinely attack natives Homes for Money. Killings in the teeming Camps Are occurring daily and Aid workers have been forced to flee angry mobs. We have these spontaneous Lynch Ings said Ruth Marshall a Unher spokeswoman in Geneva. It s in Goma Huu thugs and militia Mem Bers hacked and stoned to death a woman refugee in Nagindas Camp accusing her of being a spy for Tutsi Wilkin son said Friday. There was a mini Witch Hunt going on for alleged Tutsi spies in the Camps he ruins left for teen in Rwanda by sue palum Ostaff writer Kigali Rwanda kalindi Inturri s parents believed the government of Rwanda needed to be reformed. They died because of those beliefs he one night in Early july Inturri and his family were watching television in their comfortable three bedroom House in Kigali when they heard shouting and gunshots outside. A grenade thrown through a window took off the roof of their Home. When Inturri a father went to investigate he was confronted by government soldiers out to kill those who had spoken against the government even fellow utus such As Inturri s family. My father met them at the door and they Cut him Dow with their bayonets Inturri said in halting English Mak ing chopping motions in the air to Mother was Here he said pointing to what used to be the living room. They chopped her too he , 18, and his 14-year-old brother sneaked out through a window and climbed a tree behind the stayed in the tree for three Days because they feared the soldiers would return. Finally their Uncle came and took Inturri s brother with him to Goma Zaire. Inturri refused to is my Home Notoma he said. No one is going to make me go away and live in the refugee he walked through the House recently he pointed to the charred and twisted remains of a television stand a refrigerator the entire House looked As if some one had gone through arid made sure everything was destroyed. ,-"".-,.-, " Inturri seemed haunted by the memories and Madeno attempt to touch anything in the Shell that once was his Haven. Despite the obvious emotional turmoil he experienced during the visit Inturri was anxious to show that he had once lived in a Nice parents had a shop in town but Inturri could t explain exactly what they made. There were several sewing machines under the Mounds of rubble in a Back. Room. L it r it was t Clear what Inturri now does for food and. Ken George kalindi Inturri stands amid the rubble of what was once his Home in Kigali Rwanda before his parents were killed. Money. He said he moves from one Friend s House to another because no one can afford a permanent House guest /./", \ y a. Of " he was supposed to Start at a University this year but those plans were buried with his House he said. Job Saren t easy to find in a ghost town riddled with Bullet holes. Only a few shops Are open and most of the Cit does without water or Power. Although Inturri admitted his future is Bleak he scoffed at the idea of joining the new government s rwandan patriotic army As Many other orphaned teen agers have done for the food and shelter it pro Vides. They Are just Young boys with guns he said. And they Are Tutsi and i am neither fears nor trusts the Tutsi. He said the problems in Rwanda cannot be strictly attributed to differences Between the two tribes. He admitted that even rwandans have to ask what tribe someone is fro because there Are no distinguishing physical attributes or obvious differences in lifestyles. This was not Hutu and Tutsi he said looking at the ruins of his Home. This was children lose parents but not Hope by sue Palumbo staff writer Goma Zaire every Parent s night Mare is to lose sight of his or her child in a crowd. 7. If the parents of year-old Kuna Ziza Are alive they re probably living in their own private hell since the Day they lost him As they fled Rwanda. All the people ran and i could t Fin them anymore Kuna Ziza murmured in French As he stared at the ground. His guardian a University student translated in halting English. I called them but everyone was screaming so i just followed the other adults fed Kuna Ziza along the Way to Zaire he said. Eventually Kunan Ziza found himself at the Airport in Goma. He said a French Soldier picked him took him to the Neosho orphanage. Life in t bad at the orphanage Kun Nan Ziza said. It s better than on the Road. Unlike on his father s farm where he used to Wake up Early and Rush outside to play he said he Learned at the orphanage to stay inside until it s time to eat. If you Don to you might not get fed he explained. Kuna Ziza said he dreams about find ing his parents and Hopes one Day to join his sister who is living with his grand Mother in Rwanda. For the first time there is a hint of a smile As Kuna Ziza tells of How he helped his father on their farm. There Are thousands of children like Kuna Ziza in the orphanages. There is no Way to know How Many will be reunited with their families. Many or both parents die felled either by men with Guris and knives or by one of the Many diseases that claim thousands daily. Habit aware saw his Mother succumb to cholera Days after he awoke in a Hospital bed. The 14-year-old, who could easily pass for 10 or 11, was shot in the head near Rwanda s capital Kigali. He said a Soldier picked him up and put him in a tank with his Mother walking behind. Nuns found him lying beside the Road in Goma his Mother nearby. The next thing he remembers is seeing his Mother dying. He does t know where his father is. The oldest of four children Harbiya Kare is eager to leave the Carea Orpha nage and put his family Back together. He knows his two Brothers Are dead but his sister is living with some nuns nearby. I wish i could see my father but i Don t know where he is said Harbiya Kare who shows surprisingly Little Emo Tion. I know where my sister is and one Day i will leave Here and get her. I Don t like it Here. This is not our is Ken George habit aware 14, was shot in the head near Kigali Rwanda and saw his Mother die of cholera
