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UNICEF director
urges help for child
warriors in Africa
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Republic of Congo’s new leadership
must work to help child soldiers reintegrate into
civilian life, the director of the United Nations
Children’s Fund said Saturday.
“Africa’s senior leaders must see to the well
being of these children and ensure that they have
& normal life,” UNICEF director Carol Bolh:r
told reporters in the Republic of Congo’s capi
Brazzaville.
Bellamy delivered her message to President Denis
Sassou-Nguesso during a visit to this battered
country. She is in Africa to meet with various
government leaders and visit several UNICEF
projects.
Many children were recruited to fight in this
country’s civil war last year, during which Sassou-
Nguesso drove former President Pascal Lissouba
from power.
Bellamy said UNICEF would continue to sup
port efforts to help the children of the Republic of
Congo.
“We have discussed this question with the presi
dent of the republic and other officials we met,”
Bellamy said.
UNICEF has been working in particular to help
at least 2,000 children traumatized by the civil
war.
Up to 10,000 people were killed and countless
were left homeless during the war, which devas
tated the capital.
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Boston 69 50 pc 64 48 sh 61 45 pc 59 40 pc 59 46 pc
Chicago 69 48 sh 65 43 pc 62 42 pc 61 46 pc 8% |
Cleveland 70 50 t 67 44 pc 62 41 pc 57 39 pc 66 50 pc
Denver 70 43 pc 69 44 pc 72 44 pc 71 41 pc 67 39 pc
Des Moines 71 50 sh 70 47 pc 68 46 pc 70 52 pc 73 46 r
Detroit 70 49 t 67 43 pc 62 40 pc 57 39 pc 66 49 pc
Houston 80 61 pc 83 62 pc 884 64 pc 884 65 pc 84 62 pc
Indianapolis 72 52 sh 69 47 pc 67 45 pc 65 48 pc 76 56 r
Kansas City 71 53 pc 72 50 pc 71 49 pc 74 56 pc 75 48 sh
Los Angeles 77 64 pc 76 51 pc 75 52 pc 71 42 pc 73 44 pc
Miami 86 72 pc 85 73 pc 87 73 pc 85 72 pc 8571 pc
Minn.- St. Paul 68 48 pc 66 43 pc 63 42 pc 63 45 pc 66 42 sh
New Orleans 79 64 ¢ 81 62 pc 82 62 pc 82 63 pc 83 60 pc
New York City 70 55 pc 71 52 sh 66 50 pc 62 46 sh 65 54 pc
Omaha 74 50 pc 74 48 pc 72 47 pc 73 62 pc 73 43 #h
Phoenix 93 65 s 95 66 s 94 64 pc 87 55 pc 87 57 pc
San Francisco 70 52 pc 68 51 pc 66 51 pc 62 46 pc 63 47 pc
Seattle 71 49 pc 69 50 pc 66 46 pc 64 46 s 65 50 pc
Washington 75 57 pc 75 55 pc 71 53 pc 70 51 pc 74 59 pc
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Rwandan genocide survivor Claudette Mukaramanzi, 18, whose entire
family was killed and whose forehead still bears the scar of a machete
wound, is seen in front of a Catholic church which is now a memorial to the
1994 Rwandan genocide, in Nyamata, Rwanda, Thursday, April 23, 1998. |
will come fomorrow to see if the man who cut me will be executed, said
Mukaramanzi. if he is killed, then | can be happy. Refusing 1o bow 1o
international pressure, the government said Thursday it will go ahead
Friday with the executions of 22 people convicted for taking party in the
genocide of more than half a million people, most of them minority Tutsis.
(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
By Blannu Cabn
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
KIGALI, Rwande
Survivors of a 1994 genocide said Satur
day they felt a bittersweet sense that jus
tice finally had been done after firing
squads executed 22 Rwandans, among the
first convicted in the slaughter. :
“It will not bring satisfaction or plea
sure to survivors, but we see it as justice,”
said Jean-Bosco Rutagengwa, the leader
of a survivors’ group, Ibuka.
“People must see those who killed their
families punished, if for no other reason
than to help them feel safe.”
The genocide killed more than 500,000
people, mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus
who were hacked with machetes and left
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Mon,, May 4 .....6:37am. B:l3pm.
Tue., Mays ......6:36 am. 8:14 p.m.
Wed., May 6 ... 6:35am. 8:14 p.m.
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The storm track will dive
southward across the nation’s
midsection during the period. As a
result, wet weather is expected
acrogs the Rockies, central Plains
and Ohio Valley. Meanwhile, cool
weather will cover the Southeast.
Temperatures may run 10 degrees
below normal across portions of
Georgia, Alabama and South
Carolina. Mild weather will cover the
Northeast, Great Lakes and northern
Plains.
tobleed to death. The systematic killings by
Hutu extremists ended only when Tutsi
rebels took control in July 1994.
The government held public executions
Friday across Rwanda, defying international
pleas for clemency from human rights groups
as well as Pope John Paul 11. Officials said
the executions would signal the end of im
punity and discourage Hutu rebels who
have stepped up attacks in the past year.
“We just don’t think anybody is ahove the
law,” said businessman Bosco Maturebo.
Execution by gunfire was humane com
pared to the way the convicts’ victimns died
— slowly from machete wounds, said
Mafurebo, who lost 20 relatives in the geno
cide.
The convicts “were dead within seconds
while our brothers took weeks to die.”
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(L-R) Former chairs of SNCC (The Student Nonviolent Coordi
nating Committee), Phil Hutchings, Jamil El Amin (H. Rap
Brown), Mayor Marion Barry, Kwame Ture (Stokely
Carmichael), Charles McDew and Congressman John Lewis.
Photo Courtesy of Roy Lewis Photography.
WASHINGTON, B.C.
The Who'’s Whoof' thodvim
movement gathered in W, -
ton, D.C. on April 8 for a testimo-
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(Stokely Carmichael). A large con
tingent of former and current ac
tivists in SNCC, SCLC, the Black
Panther Party, NAACP, Urban
League, CORE, and the Pan-
Africanist movement paid tribute
to the past chairman of SNCC and
current chairman of the All-Afri
can People’s Revolutionary Party
(AAPRP) who is now battling pros
tate cancer,
Hospital workers insulted
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actions.
“The patient should have been
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The occasion was used to cel
ebrate Ture’s life, political activ
ism, and raise funds for his medi
cal expenses. In attendance were
Min. Louis Farrakhan, Amiri
Baraka, dnla%o Eleanor Holmes
Norton (D-DC), Congressman
Bobby Rush (D-IL), Joseph
Lowery, chairman of the Black
Leadership Forum; Mayor Marion
Barry, Washington, D.C.
Contributions can still be sent
to Friends of Kwame Ture Testi
monial Dinner at 1234 Monroe
Street NE, Washington, D.C.
20017.
told that the despicable request
was out of the question, and that
race will not be a factor in their
decision making,” said Don Cohen,
the group’s Michigan director.