Word: burundi
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...ferocity of the anger directed solely at Kikuyu is new, and the church killing in particular has ominous echoes of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when moderate Hutu and Tutsi were also massacred in churches where they had gathered in the thousands to seek safety. "Maybe in Burundi or Rwanda," commented one U.N. official. "But I never thought this could happen in Kenya...
Analysts and U.N. officials saw echoes of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, when churches were turned into slaughterhouses for some of the 800,000 moderate Hutu and Tutsi victims. "Maybe in Burundi or Rwanda, but I never thought this could happen in Kenya," one U.N. official said...
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...true and heartbreaking philosophical sentiment, but not necessarily the first one to come to a child in the midst of such on-the-ground chaos.There is an average of 300,000 child soldiers fighting around the world at any given time. In African countries such as Uganda, Sierra-Leone, Burundi, and Liberia, as well as in many South East Asian countries, children, often under ten years of age, have been or are abducted by rebel groups, forced to fight, and are physically and sexually abused. “Beasts of No Nation” isn’t, and doesn?...
...Hitler was a horrible atrocity, but isn't it time to stop ignoring this century's many other genocides? Why the silence concerning the 6.5 million Mao Zedong killed? Or the 20 million Stalin was responsible for murdering? Or the 2 million killed by black-African governments in Uganda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sudan and other nations? Or the Japanese genocide that killed 2 million in World War II? And on and on. Your reviewer, like many other people, is dismayed that so few young Americans have heard of the Holocaust. But everyone should be angered about ignorance of the other...