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Despite its outrage, the international community has neither the will nor the way to stop the slaughter

Some of the bodies lie motionless on the Ugandan shore. Others float in the breaking waves or bob against tangled beds of water hyacinth. Most are mutilated: limbs slashed, heads missing, a scattering of pale forms indistinguishable from one another except the ways in which they died. The corpses, swept as many as 60 miles by the rain-swollen Kagera River in Rwanda to the edges of Lake Victoria, are the latest evidence of a savage war.

Seven weeks of such and estimates of a death toll anywhere from 200,000 to half a million have moved the world to tears -- but...

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