Bodies Clog Rwandan River: Officials Count Hundreds of Corpses Per Day Floating Into Tanzania

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 2, 1994| Author: Keith B. Richburg | Copyright information

The meandering Kagera River has become a sea of bodies.

The sudden rush of a quarter-million refugees from Rwanda into Tanzania Friday slowed to a trickle today, but foreign relief workers and Tanzanian government officials have been confronted with an influx of Rwandans of a different sort but on an equally shocking scale: Scores of bodies are floating down the river from the Rwandan capital, Kigali, into a desolate corner of northwestern Tanzania.

"There are hundreds of bo...

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