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THE DESERT SUN Friday, June 10, 1994 A10W0RLD 9 priests murdered Aides told not to describe mass killings as genocide in Rwandan capital prohibits a broader denunciation, administration officials say they recognize the guidance as a boundary on their public pronouncements. That caution appears to reflect the attitude of an administration that has become deeply wary of new entanglements abroad, particularly in cases like Rwanda, a landlocked African country to which the US. has no ties. Without oil or other resources as a rationale, the case for military inter-" vention would have to be based on whether ending the killing is worth the cost in American lives and dollars. LA New York Times News Service WASHINGTON Trying to avoid the rise of mbral pressure to stop the "mass killing In Rwanda, the Clinton administration has instructed its spokesmen not to describe the deaths there as genocide, even though some senior officials believe that is exactly what they represent.

That decision has left the administration at odds with the secretary-general of the United Nations and a cast of distinguished experts who say there is no doubt that the violence, which is said to have killed at least 200,000 people and perhaps as many as 400,000, is part of the deliberate and widespread extermination of an ethnic group. But American officials say that so stark a label could inflame public calls for action the administration is unwilling to take. Rather than compare the killings with the deaths under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the State Department and the National Security Council have drafted guidance instructing spokesmen to say merely that "acts of genocide may have occurred." While no memorandum explicitly misguided soldiers." He saidone of the soldiers was shot and killed by other rebel guards and three others fled. Pope John Paul II said he was "profoundly upset" by the Kabgayi massacre, and prayed that the victims find in heaven "the peace that their well-loved land denied them." The Vatican did not comment on the deaths in Kigali. But last month, he asked the Security Council to declare the church center at Kabgayi, where some 30,000 refugees, mostly Tut-sis, are sheltering, a safe area and to send U.N.

forces to protect it. The council ignored the request and the tiny U.N. force in Kigali said it could not accept responsibility for Kabgayi unless it was reinforced. More than 200,000 people have died since the Rwandan civil war erupted anew April 6, following the death of President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, in a mysterious plane crash The conflict is both political and ethnic, involving historic animosities between the majority Hutu and mi- The Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda Another massacre. The word has come to symbolize the Rwandan conflict.

This time it involves nine Roman Catholic priests and 63 others killed in the capital. The United Nations said Thursday it had received reliable reports confirming earlier witness accounts of a massacre that occurred late Monday or early Tuesday in the Nyamirambo district of the city, a southwestern quarter now the scene of some of the heaviest fighting. The news came just a day after Rwandan rebel radio reported that 13 other Rwandan clergymen, including the Roman Catholic archbishop of Kigali and two bishops, were killed by four rebel soldiers assigned to guard them. That information was confirmed by a rebel leader conducting cease-fire talks here. "We are also very, very concerned by what happened," said Col.

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