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Boy Scouts make the best out of rescue wait
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Chester Stutes hugs his grandson, Caleb Stutes, 14, as he arrives at St. Edmond Catholic Church in Lafayette, La. on Tuesday. A National Guard helicopter rescued the six stranded Louisiana Boy Scouts from a southwest Arkansas forest Tuesday morning. The helicopter crew spotted a campfire and some of the Scouts overnight Monday, then headed out again at first light. The boys and two adult leaders had been missing since Sunday, when rising water cut off their exit from the Albert Pike Recreation Area.
LANGLEY, Ark. — In the same remote valley where 20 people died in a flash flood last summer, six Louisiana Boy Scouts trapped by a rising river built a campfire and ate jambalaya and grits, confident that rescuers would eventually arrive.
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The boys' two adult leaders had them set up camp near a mountain they could climb if their trail flooded — one of a series of decisions that allowed the group to emerge unharmed from the Albert Pike Recreation Area in southwest Arkansas. Rescuers also praised them for good planning, leaving a map of their planned trek and avoiding the valley floor when they realized how deep and fast the river had grown.
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"They did exactly what they needed to do," Montgomery County Sheriff David White said. "As long as they stayed on high ground, we figured they were going to be in good shape."
While the weekend's conditions weren't as bad as the deadly flood that struck last year while people were sleeping, they were dangerous. The boys crossed the Little Missouri River at the start of their trip Thursday but by the time they went to leave Sunday morning, it
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had grown to 70 yards wide and up to 5 feet deep. Scoutmaster Jeff Robinson tested it and ordered the troop to retreat.
"I realized the water was too strong to cross the river with the boys," Robinson said. A National Guard helicopter eventually plucked the group to safety after sunrise Tuesday.
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The Scouts themselves said there was no reason to worry.
After eating jambalaya, eggs and grits Sunday, the boys had only one meal of jambalaya Monday. But Robinson said they had enough food to last several days, a water filter and a dry camp.
The boys said they passed the time in between talking and sleeping in. With no cell phone service available, several said their biggest concern was what their parents were thinking.
low areas during rain, said Art Hawkins, executive director of the Boy Scouts' Evangeline Area Council in Lafayette.
"I was worried that my parents would freak out," said Ian Fuselier, 13.
"If we had to stay three, four, five days, we had the resources to do so," he said.
The troop had filed a detailed schedule and map for its hike with a Scout leader who didn't make the trip, and they knew to avoid
dren, the parents gathered Monday night at a local church in a scene eerily similar to a vigil nearly a year before. Pastor Graig Cowart led them in prayer, calling out the names of the stranded boys and asking for their safe return. Relatives joined hands. Some cried.
ing," Cowart said during the wait Monday night. "They felt really alone and isolated."
Troop 162 was reported missing when it didn't return home Monday as planned, and anxious parents and relatives drove up from Lafayette, La. Search teams on the ground couldn't find the boys, and rain and fog prevented a helicopter from doing a flyover.
The Scouts were found early Tuesday when the weather improved enough for a National Guard helicopter to make it into the park and spot their campfire.
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Witness helps Kansas man accused in Rwandan killing
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WICHITA — A former neighbor of a Kansas man accused of participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide testified 'Tuesday that he never saw the man at any of the ethnic killings in the area where they lived.
Jean-Marie Byiringiro took the stand during the third day of testimony in the U.S. immigration trial of Lazare Kobagaya. Byiringiro, who admitted killing a 12-year-old Tutsi boy in exchange for a goat as part of the genocide, said he was at nearly all of the ethnic killings in the area where he and Kobagaya lived.
The arsons and killings related to Kobagavas's case allegedly occurred in a rural community known as Birambo, where Kobagaya and his family lived at the time, as well as
Kobagaya, 84, is in a federal courtroom in Kansas fighting charges of unlawfully obtaining U.S. citizenship in 2006 with fraud and misuse of an alien registration card. The government, which is seeking to revoke his citizenship, contends he lied to U.S. immigration authorities about his involvement in the genocide. Kobagaya contends he is innocent.
at Mount Nyakizu, where thousands of Tutsis had sought refuge.
The government contends Kobagaya was a wealthy and influential leader who incited the arsons and killings in his community, along with Francois Bazaramba, a former Rwandan pastor who was sentenced last year to life imprisonment by a Finnish court for committing genocide against the Tutsi minority in 1994.
Most of Byiringiro's testimony implicated Bazaramba, not Kobagaya. In fact, Byiringiro, who served seven years in prison for his role in the genocide, told jurors that Kobagaya, a Hutu born in neighboring Burundi, did not have any power in the community because he was a refugee in Rwanda.
An estimated 500,000 to 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda between April and July 1994. Most of the dead belonged to an ethnic group known as the Tutsi, while most of the killings were carried out by members of an ethnic group known as the Hutu.
When a mob gathered at Bazaramba's house before the homes of Tutsis were set on fire on April 15, 1994, Byirigiro said, Kobagaya came out of his house only because people were in front of
it. It was Bazaramba who spoke to the crowd, Byiringiro said. During the speech, Bazaramba called on Kobagaya to explain to the crowd that the Tutsis were bad people.
Byiringiro said through a translator that Kobagaya did tell people that "we did not know the badness of the Tutis" and that if they didn't kill them, the Tutis would kill the Hutus. However, Byiringiro told the jury he did not see Kobagaya join the rest of the crowd of more than 100 people in the arsons.
On Tuesday, defense attorney Kurt Kerns questioned Murindangabo, a former teacher who has served more than 10 years in prison for his role in the genocide, about an eight-page government form he had filled out as part of his own confession.
His testimony came a day after another neighbor, Valens Murindangabo, testified that Kobagaya told the mob to burn down the houses of Tutsis so they would not return and ordered the killings of others.
of his own confession. Murindangabo insisted an attachment had been lost that listed Kobagaya as participating in the genocide.
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