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Apartheid killer
seeks forgiveness
By Pat Reber
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
TRUST FEEDS, South Africa
If song can open the heart, then the families
and friends of the 11 dead sounded ready to
forgive the convicted apartheid killer in their
midst.
Brian Mitchell received amnesty for his crimes
and had come to this small villagein the troubled
green hills of KwaZulu Natal to ask for forgive
ness and promote post-apartheid reconciliation,
even though he was under no obligation to do so.
“I understand that giving forgiveness is not
an easy thing to do,” an obviously nervous
Mitchell said. “But I ask the community to
consider forgiving me for what happened.”
Despite the 300 voices and the harmonic Afri
can hymns which opened the meeting near a
community school not far from the killing site,
it was clear after three hours in the midday sun
that not everyone was ready to forgive and
forget.
“I lost my husband on that awful day in
December 1988,” Mavis Madondo cried. “Now I
am left with all these children. They cannot
proceed with their education. How can you
help?”
She returned to her seat and, along with a
woman on crutches from injuriesreceived in the
raid, wept while another woman comforted them.
Mitchell, 39, the first former policeman to
receive amnesty, was convicted in 1992 of 11
murders in the massacre he led along with four
constables from the nearby New Hanover police
station, which he commanded at the time.
He was sentenced todeath, later commuted to
30yearsin prison after the Constitutional Court
outlawed capital punishment, an ideasupported
by the African National Congress government
elected in the country’s first all-race elections in
1994.
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Rebel leader promises
to assist search
for missing refugees
By Hrvoje Hranjski
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
KISANGANI, Zaire
Zaire's rebel leader ordered up to 100,000
Rwandan Hutu refugees out of Zaire on Sun
day, giving the United Nations two months to
track them down and send them home.
Laurent Kabila promised thatinternational
officials would have full access tosearch for the
tens ofthousands of refugees, whose fateis still
unknown after they dispersed into the jungle
when their camps allegedly came underattack
last week.
A few hundred refugees have been found.
Some of these refugees said Zairian villagers
attacked the camps with machetes, killing
hundreds, and say Kabila’s forces opened fire
on at least one camp.
Authorities evacuated the first 40 of the
refugees on Sunday, flying them directly from
Kisangani to the Rwandan capital of Kigali,
according to representatives of the U.N. refu
gee agency.
Kabila’s fighters previously had blocked a
planned U.N. airlift of the starving, disease
ridden refugees, sayingin part that therefugee
flights would interfere with his troops’ move
ments.
But in talks with U.N. officials Sunday in
Kisangani, Kabila abruptly gave the United
Nations two months to collect and evacuate
‘the refugees, Filippo Grandi of the U.N. refu
gee agency said. Kabila said the airlift could
use any airport except the rebel-held airport in
Goma on the Rwandan border, Grandi said.
It was not clear what would happen to the
‘refugeesiftheyremainedinZaireafter the 60-day
'deadline, the countdown for which starts May 1.
The refugee camps, crammed with 100,000
:starving, exhausted and disease-ridden refu
.gees days earlier, were found eerily deserted
last week, five days after rebels sealed off the
area to foreign aid workers and journalists.
“Weare going tomorrow to the camps. We've
been given access,” said European Union en-
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voy Aldo Ajellosaid after heand U.N. represen
tatives talked with Kabila.
Flying over the jungle Sunday, aid workers
spotted heavy smoke at two sites west of the
abandoned camps. International cfficials think
the smoke might be from campfires of large
groups of refugees too frightened to come out
ofthejungle, said Paul Stromberg,a U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees spokesman in
“The problem is, the forest is so dense it’s
virtually impossible to see anything from the
air,” he said.
The refugees are among the more than 1
million Hutus who fled Rwanda in 1994, fear
ing reprisals for the country’s state-orches
trated genocide that killed at least 500,000
people, mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Most have since returned to Rwanda.
Rebels repeatedly blocked U.N. efforts to fly
the refugees home and have done little to
prevent looting and attacks by Zairian villag
ers.
Kabila insisted that U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan retract allegations last week that
rebels were using a tactic of “slow extermina
tion” against the refugees, sources close to
Sunday’s talks said. They spoke on the condi
tion that their names be withheld, and called
the meeting “very tense.”
Kabila’s forces have overrun more than half
of Zaire in their seven-month-old battle to
topple President Mobutu Sese Seko. South
Africa, a key mediator in the war, says Mobutu
and Kabila are expected to hold peace talks
early this week.
Bill Richardson, U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, goes to Zaire on Monday to
talk with Mobutu and Kabila about the war
and the Rwandan refugees.
Kabila insisted that armed men among the
refugees attacked his forces, and not the other
way around.
“There is a deliberate campaign of accusing
the alliance for what has happened,” he said at
a news conference in Kisangani. He promised
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Rwandan refugees gather for their first food distribution in
over a week on the side of the road in the remnants of the
former Biaro refugee camp, 25 miles south of the eastern .
Zairian town of Kisangani on Monday. Thousands of |
Rwandan Hutu refugees emerged from the jungles of eastern
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an “independent, impartial investi
gation” but did not say whether
international officials would be al
lowed to take part.
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refugees under military protection at
undisclosed locations. Soldiers lined
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more minority students.”
Ironically, the school sponsors
several enrichment programs de
signed to prepare high school stu
dents for the rigorous academic
demands of several years in medi
cal school. Some of the programs
are designed especially for minority
students. The first such program
was begun in 1978. It was designed
to boost minority enrollment in the
school’s five health professions pro
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demic Advising Program wasadded
and Project 3000 X 2000 was added
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“We've been the ones who have
been assembling the refugees,”
Kabila said. He said the refugees
were regrouping about 60 miles
south of Kisangani.
At one of the abandoned camps,
Kasese, 362 of the 695 refugee
children had been sick, severely
malnourished or injured before
they fled, according to UNICEF.
organization, is also joining in the
school’s recruitment efforts. SNMA
members are speakingin local high
schools and are serving as mentors.
Dr. Allen-Noble waxes philosophi
cal about the decisions students
make regarding their medical edu
cation. She was once in their place.
She applauds the options they pos
sess. “I feel honored when they
choose us. However, I don’t feel
dishonored because they don’t
choose us. They are exercising op
tions students a generation ago did
not have,” she said.
To date only two African Ameri
cans have beenacceptedintothe 1997
round of admissions at MCG. Appli
cations are still being reviewed.