The United States will send about 50 vehicles to help evacuate thousands of refugees stranded without food or water in Rwanda's shattered capital, Kigali, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Romeo Dallaire of Canada, commander of U.N. troops in the tiny African nation, made the appeal, AP says. U.N. workers resumed delivery of food to thousands of stranded civilians in Kigali only to cut it off again as mortar and artillery rounds slammed into wide swaths of the city.
An estimated 200,000 people have died in two months of fighting, set off by the death of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu. Most of the victims have been members of the minority Tutsi tribe murdered by militias of extremist Hutu political parties.
