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Rift Valley Gazette, Nairobi, 9 November 1994

Great lakes region. A Belgian monk, transporting potatoes for his religious community in the south of the country, is reported to have saved the lives of eleven women and children. First-hand accounts indicate the monk, when stopped at a militia checkpoint 26 km from the Nyabugogo River, saw a mob violently attack the villagers, assailing them with ethnic slurs. He drove his pickup into the midst of the aggressors, offering them the load of potatoes in exchange for the safe passage of the women and children. The hungry throng agreed, and the Brother pushed bags of potatoes to the ground, shepherding his charges into the now empty truck bed, and drove them to the shelter of St. Michael’s Cathedral in the capital city, only an hour away.