Une véritable marée humaine submerge la ville de Goma au Zaïre. Ils sont 300 000, des Hutu pour la plupart. Depuis plus d'un mois ils fuient leurs pires ennemis, les rebelles tutsi du Front patriotique rwandais

Pernaut, Jean-Pierre

Nakad, Nahida

Marque, Isabelle

15 juillet 1994

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Une véritable marée humaine submerge la ville de Goma au Zaïre. Ils sont 300 000, des Hutu pour la plupart. Depuis plus d'un mois ils fuient leurs pires ennemis, les rebelles tutsi du Front patriotique rwandais

À Kibuye, les habitants craignent le départ des soldats Français.

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- France, supported by the United States, called for an emergency meeting of the Security Council last night [July 14] in order to demand an immediate ceasefire in Rwanda. She also launched a new appeal to come to the aid of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have been flocking to Zaire for 48 hours.
- We are talking about a real exodus (between 200,000 and 400,000 refugees) of a whole population terrorized by the advance of the RPF. And a completely catastrophic humanitarian situation.
- A real human tide submerges the city of Goma in Zaire. They are 300,000, mostly Hutus. For more than a month they have been fleeing their worst enemies, the Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. The RPF has captured Ruhengeri, the main town in the north of the country, and is advancing on Gisenyi, where the government forces are based.
- At the border post, the Zairian customs officers were unable to stop the mass of refugees. Men, women and children determined to leave their country at all costs with all that they were able to take with them. Many suffer from diarrhea, malnutrition and malaria. Overwhelmed aid organizations say Zaire will be hit by a human and ecological disaster by the end of the month.
- Yet this headlong rush was predictable. The international community has hesitated once again to come to the aid of populations in danger. It will take weeks to provide them with minimum assistance. It will be too late for hundreds of Rwandan refugees.
- Another consequence of the advance of the RPF: the flight of the former Hutu government towards the security zone controlled by the French. But the French army does not intend to protect them. In this area there are also refugees who fear the departure of our soldiers.
- Kibuye is one of the French CPs in the Safe Humanitarian Zone. It is also a large and infamous village: on April 17, 3,000 Tutsi trapped on the peninsula were massacred in this church.
- The survivors are under the protection of the French at HQ. 150 people who have lived through terrible hours. Jean-Baptiste lost his family. For him, and those who are still found every day, the massacres are over but their lives still depend on the French.
- In Kibuye today, it is mainly Hutu that we meet, the inhabitants, stricken with amnesia, but also refugees who fear reprisals while deploring the massacres.
- Only the French are reassuring. And the only point in common between the two torn populations is the fear of the soldiers being replaced by a UN mission in which they have no confidence.