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2A APRIL 30, 1998 AUGUSTA FOCUS Py 1 y R : = A B £ g p 4 a9e ! . I UNICEF director urges help for child warriors in Africa S Iflofufl.ll,’llp‘ltd(c-o 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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GFE“" = _C & k & by I 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 All maps, forecasts, and data provided by Weather Source, Inc. © 1998 | Monday | a‘::f‘ e Clouds and sun; warm. 84/57 Sunday | g& Partly sunny and § warm. | 82/56 ‘ THE WEEK AHEAD Precipitation 2EEYY T W THE NATIONAL SUMMARY Weather (W): s-sunny, pe-partly cloudy, ¢-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, I-ice. w_ggfi’i i {1 — Thu, Apr. 30 ......6:4lam. 810 p.m. Fr,Mayl .....640am. 8:10p.m, Sat,May2 ... 6:39am. 8:11pm. Sun., May 3 .......6:3Bam. 8:12p.m. 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. Moonrise Moonset Thu., Apr. 30 .... 10:30 a.m. none Fr, May 1 ... 11:26am. 1243 am. Sat,May2 .....1223p.m. I:33am, Moon Phases . First Full Last New May May May May 3 1 19 25 [ Tuesday | !:;Z l Wednesday| 4‘:,1" . Clouds and ‘ sun; warm. 83/53 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.” ® B P Time 1S money:. We can save you both! ' \ V) LTI33 Lawn Tractor e '[ * 13-hp engine '3B-§nch movying de_ck ! 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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 From page one actions. “The patient should have been Fax news of your upcoming special events to Augusta Focus at (706) 724-8432. 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.