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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 17:18:29 -0600 (CST)
From: "Alan Spector" <spector@calumet.purdue.edu>
Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu
Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu
Subject: ZAIRE
   When this REVS list was started, the hope was that the hundreds of
members could offer insights and expertise on matters relating to
racial/ethnic/religious violence.  Right now, the situation that started in
Burundi and spread to Rwanda and turned into massive genocide has spread
to Zaire, where one expert calls it the most serious crisis in Africa in 35
years.  Given the Ethiopian famine, the current Ethiopian ethnic cleansing,
the Somalian famine, the horrors of Apartheid, and the dictatorship in
Nigeria, (to name just a few issues), this would indicate a serious
situation.  Perhaps someone with some close knowledge of the situation
could initiate some discussion about that.

Alan Spector  (Editor)