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"UNITED METHODIST DAILY NEWS" by SUSAN PEEK on Aug. 11, 1991 at 13:58 Eastern,
about FULL TEXT RELEASES FROM UNITED METHODIST NEWS SERVICE (3293 notes).

Note 3292 by UMNS on Nov. 15, 1996 at 16:27 Eastern (1671 characters).

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EDITORS NOTE: This story is a sidebar for UMNS story #577 {3291}.

Clinton doesn't have 'clear view'
of situation, Zairians say

     NEW YORK (UMNS) -- As U.S. troops prepared to leave for a
peacekeeping mission in eastern Zaire, two Zairians raised doubts
about U.S. government's abilities to assess the crisis there
properly.
     "I think the Clinton administration doesn't really have a
clear view of what is happening in the region," said the Rev. Ngoy
D. Mulunda-Nyanga, a United Methodist with the All Africa Council
of Churches.
     During a Nov. 14 discussion here, both Mulunda-Nyanga and
Mulegwa Zihindula, who runs a literacy project in Bukavu, Zaire,
believe the Tutsi Rwandan government is using the fighting in
eastern Zaire to further push Rwandan Hutu refugees from its
border.
     The mini-war has been conducted "for security and stability
for the Tutsi regimes in both Rwanda and Burundi" Mulunda-Nyanga
said.
     The U.S. government can be most influential in the refugee
crisis by convincing the Rwandan government to encourage its Hutu
refugees to return, according to Zihindula.
     Reuters News Service reported Nov. 15 that an estimated
250,000 refugees were slowly moving through Goma toward the
Rwandan border a few miles away.
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