Coming home to fight
After fighting in Congo, Rwanda’s militiamen threaten their own regime
“THE United Nations may as well go home, it's Rwanda that is doing the disarming once again.” The Rwandan military commander, standing at the scene of the latest assault by the Interahamwe—the militia responsible for Rwanda's 1994 genocide—in north-west Rwanda, spoke with satisfaction. And, indeed, he was surrounded by evidence of disarmament, of a kind: the bodies of militiamen yet to be buried, and a motley collection of prisoners.
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