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Wednesday,August 24,1994
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Rebel leader turns attention to Rwanda's uncertain future
The Associated Press
KIGALI, Rwanda — He fled the country as a toddler to escape ethnic killings. Thirty-three years later, Paul Kagame returned at the head of a victorious rebel army, determined to end his country's cycles of ethnic terror.
The thin, ascetic Kagame — nicknamed Commander Pilate for his harsh treatment of wrongdoers — led what military analysts say was a brilliant campaign to outst the Hutu government, which had ignited the slaughter of up to 500,000 of his fellow Tutsis.
Since winning the war in early July, Kagame has stressed the prevention of reprisals and the rebuilding of a shattered Rwanda. Above all, he is
calling on the Hutus and Tutsis to be one.
"Whatever we do, we try to make sure it works in the direction of preventing the cycles of violence," he said. "We have to be broad-minded in looking at problems we all face as Rwandese, rather than looking at ourselves as Tutsis or Hutus."
The 37-year-old Kagame, bespectacled and intense, admitted the tasks before him were monumental. He and the new government must attract large amounts of international aid and convince fearful Hutus — who make up some 90 percent of the population — that they will be equal partners.
Kagame must curb revenge-thirsty
Tutsis who, he admits, are committing some atrocities, while at the same time bring those Hutus responsible for the carnage to justice.
Analysts say he must avoid the temptation to hold on to power, a pattern that has brought bloodshed and economic ruin to one African country after another. If Kagame keeps to his stated course, he would be an exception rather than the rule on the continent.
"He knows what he wants for this country. I believe he means what he says," said Abdul Kabia, deputy head of the U.N. mission in Rwanda, who has known Kagame for years and is impressed with his dedication and enlightened platform.
Loyal Serbs organize against rebel leader
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serbs who have remained quietly loyal to the government during two years of war spearheaded by their ethnic brethren are becoming more active in trying to undercut rebel leader Radovan Karadzic.
The effort to provide an alternative to the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb state and Karadiz stands no chance of immediate success. But it increases the pressure on the increasingly isolated Karadzic.
Karadzic's pariah status worsened this month when his patron, Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic, severed all political and economic ties with the Bosman Serbs.
Mirko Pejanovic, a Serbian member of Bosnia's presidency, is among the leaders of anti-Karadzic Bosnian Serbs as head of the pro-government Serb Civic Council.
"It is not true that we can't live together with Muslims and Croats," Peianovic said in an interview.
Hundreds of thousands remain in the 70 percent of Bosnia held by the Serb rebels. They will vote in a referendum Aug. 27-28 on whether to accept an international peace plan that would leave Serbs only 49 per
cent of Bosnia and give the rest to a federation of Muslims and Croats.
Milosevic's cutting of ties with the Bosnian Serbs is an effort to press them into accepting the plan. Milosevic, widely regarded as the instigator of the war, hopes that approval of the plan will end the international community's severe economic sanctions against Yugoslavia, of which Serbia is the dominant republic.
But Bosnian Serb leaders remain defiant. They have turned to the referendum to shift responsibility to a population already bombarded with nationalist propaganda.
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