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...In mid-1994, Bob Krueger took his wife and young daughters to the small mountainous country in central Africa. During that time, ethnic genocide in neighboring Rwanda took about 800,000 lives of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in a three-month period, and more than three million refugees and avenging militias spilled into neighboring Uganda, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Tanzania, and Burundi. Almost alone among Clinton’s diplomats, Krueger helped protect people from slaughter. When he challenged Tutsi marauders, two newspapers called for his assassination, and an ambush was soon attempted, leaving Bob unhurt but two people dead and eight more wounded. One day his wife, Kathleen, faced down a dozen African soldiers who were intent on killing one of their household workers. --Jan Reid, in his book on Ann Richards, disapproving of a Richards confidante’s recollection of amusement at Krueger’s Burundi appointment after his disastrous U.S. Senate race.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:28:37 +0000

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