Word: habyarimana
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...ones killing -- and not only Tutsi but also Hutu. You hint that both ethnic groups (not tribes) have broken promises. If you look at history, it is obvious that Tutsi have killed more often, targeting educated Hutu, than Hutu have ever done until now. Under President Juvenal Habyarimana, both Hutu and Tutsi were learning to live together...
Unless led by a hated tyrant, a country that loses its head of state by violence often goes a bit mad. In Rwanda the madness was spreading even before the night of April 6, when the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana and his neighboring head of state Cyprien Ntaryamira from Burundi was shot out of the sky over the capital of Kigali, plunging into the gardens of the presidential palace. Habyarimana was a Hutu who had grabbed power in a coup in 1973 and worked hard to hang onto it. He was on his way back from a peace conference...
When it suited his purposes, President Habyarimana could behave like a model multiculturalist. By the late 1980s his economy was gasping, famine was spreading, and his hold on power looked increasingly fragile. In a gesture of reform he loosened controls on the press and began negotiating to allow competing parties into the government. But many thought he was still dragging his feet. In 1990 the exiled Tutsi of the Rwandan Patriotic Front invaded from Uganda and launched a civil war that came to a halt only last August with the Arusha accords, which mandated that power be shared. Tutsi would...
...bloodshed began after Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, both Hutus, died when their plane crashed at Kigali airport almost two weeks ago. A military team from Belgium, the former colonial power in Rwanda, has concluded that the jet was shot down with rockets belonging to the Rwandan army -- most likely by the presidential guard angered at plans to include Tutsis in the government. The 600-strong guard began murdering all the Tutsis they could find. The army soon joined in, as much to loot as to kill...
Despite the obvious Tutsi motive for assassinating the two Presidents, the finger of suspicion points at Habyarimana's own battalion-strong palace guard of Hutus, who were incensed that the Tutsis had been given Cabinet posts and that their followers, exiled in Uganda for two generations, were likely to be given land on which to settle in what is Africa's most densely populated country. And indeed, government-appointed Tutsis were an early target of the violence last week. After presidential guards surrounded the house of Prime Minister (and Tutsi) Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 10 Belgian soldiers, part...