TITLE

Rwanda's rebels find a surprising friend

PUB. DATE

July 1994

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;7/18/94, Vol. 117 Issue 3, p17

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focus on a French military effort to block the rebels' inexorable advance across Rwanda. Confusion as to why French are there; How France will maintain its influence in Rwanda by cozying up to the new regime and clear the pangs of conscience it suffered over backing the old one; Investigation by French soldiers on who organized the massacres of Tutsis and Hutu moderates.

ACCESSION #

9407127535

 

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