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Rwanda - A New Catastrophe?

Card Number 800

Number
800
Date
December 1994
Ymd
19941201
Title
Rwanda - A New Catastrophe?
Subtitle
Increased International Efforts Required to Punish Genocide and Prevent further Bloodshed.
Cote
Human Rights Watch Africa, Vol. 6, No. 12
Size
1428960 bytes
Pages nb.
21
Source
HRW
Language
EN
Abstract
Representatives of nongovernmental organizations and of the international media have reported that troops of the former Rwandan government are drilling at a number of sites, including those near the Katindo and Mugunga camps, a report confirmed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in his November 18 statement to the Security Council. These soldiers are well armed. Although were obliged to surrender machetes and rifles as they arrived in Zaire, many others passed the frontier with their arms, including some heavy weaponry. Rwandan soldiers reportedly guard and maintain howitzers and armored personnel carriers hidden in a warehouse in Goma that is supposedly under the control of the Zairian military. During its mission to the region in October and November, Human Rights Watch/Africa obtained a detailed inventory of arms held by the former Rwandan government army. Among the equipment are: 6 helicopters (1 Dauphin, 2 Alouette, 3 Gazelle) 50 anti-tank weapons (75 mm recoilless rifles) 40-50 SA-7 missiles 15 Mistral AAM missiles 46 air defense weapons (37 mm, 23 mm, 14.5 AAMG) 255 mortars (120 mm, 82 mm, 81 mm, 60 mm) 6 105 mm howitzers 56 armored personnel carriers (with cannons or machine guns).