World IN BRIEF : RWANDA : 150 Soldiers Arrive in ‘Safe Zone’
The Tutsi-led government sent about 150 soldiers to begin taking control of southwestern Rwanda, where half a million Hutus have sought U.N. protection against feared reprisals for massacres during the country’s devastating civil war. The new government, trying to consolidate its July victory, has promised it will not tolerate reprisals against Hutus for the slaughter of at least 500,000 people, mostly civilians from Rwanda’s Tutsi minority. Shaharyar Khan, the U.N. special representative for Rwanda, said the transition from U.N. to government control will take two to four weeks.
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