Le retour des réfugiés s'amorce lentement mais sûrement. Toute la question est de savoir si ces gens ne vont pas maintenant devenir des réfugiés dans leur propre pays

Bromberger, Dominique

Rybinski, Gauthier

Joachim, Manuel

Allémonière, Patricia

Bellot, Jean-Michel

25 juillet 1994

19940725

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Le retour des réfugiés s'amorce lentement mais sûrement. Toute la question est de savoir si ces gens ne vont pas maintenant devenir des réfugiés dans leur propre pays

L'afflux de vivres et d'équipements n'est pas sans poser de nouveaux problèmes aux organisations humanitaires présentes sur place.

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- In Zaire and Rwanda, every day brings an increase in the number of mortality among refugees. According to Médecins sans frontières, 3,000 people are now dying a day in Goma. Under these conditions, a still limited return movement is confirmed among the refugees.
- Despite the war, cholera and death, the first refugees to return to Rwanda are not exempt from administrative formalities. The Rwandan Patriotic Front registers them as soon as they cross the border. New power requires.
- And the road continues. In Gisenyi, Rwanda, a big surprise: a new refugee camp, a new census. But for the first time, in the modern history of Rwanda, there is no distinction between ethnic groups.
- But despite everything, there is something uneasy in the air. Propaganda or counter-propaganda, fear or relief, who to believe, what to believe? Rwandans have not finished their Stations of the Cross. The return of the refugees is beginning, slowly but surely. The whole question is whether these people will not now become refugees, in their own country.
- Clashes have pitted French soldiers and Hutu militiamen over the last three nights. These militiamen are responsible for the massacres of the Tutsi minority. In addition, hundreds of Rwandan soldiers, still armed, loot what the refugees have managed to keep.
- International aid begins to organize. Australia has announced the dispatch of 300 soldiers to Rwanda. As for the Americans, they have just announced the temporary suspension of their food parachuting. A method that had been widely criticized by humanitarian organizations.
- We had to see images of children dying for the cargo planes to load food. They had to be repeated over the days for the pace to accelerate. Five other American jumbo jets took off from Frankfurt. Australia, Spain have announced that they are joining the operation. And Israel has already left a field hospital and several thousand tons of medicine.
- But this influx of food and equipment is not without posing new problems for humanitarian organizations present there. This aid should be organized and coordinated. The food drops by the Americans yesterday [July 24] have been heavily criticized. The parachuting would have taken place in the wrong place. He would have mobilized too many arms for the recovery. And its objective, the Katale camp north of Goma, was not a priority. There was enough food for the 300,000 refugees. Several NGOs did not hesitate to talk about pranks.
- At the end of the morning, today, the American staff announced that it was temporarily suspending the airdrop operation. At this time, donor countries and volunteers on the ground are working together and working to put order in the flow of aid.
- Richard Virenque, mountain grand prix and fifth in the Tour de France, announced last night that he was donating his Tour winnings to the Médecins sans frontières organization to help refugees from Rwanda. The best climber of the Tour also offers to auction his white jersey with red polka dots and his bike.
- He could have been content to have an obsessive thought for his own suffering. He could also have pocketed the 250,000 francs of nest egg that his talent allowed him to accumulate during the three weeks of the Tour 94. But there were these images, these terrible images, which he discovered every evening and which spoiled him so much. his pleasure as a winner than his serenity as a geographically well-born human being. So yesterday [July 24] after arriving on the Champs, Richard Virenque donated all of his earnings to Doctors Without Borders.