Word: hutu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...migration began three months ago, when fighting engulfed Kigali. Two hundred and fifty thousand Hutu from the eastern region fled east over the border of Tanzania, in what the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called "the biggest, fastest exodus" in the agency's history. In so doing, the Hutu created the UNHCR's largest, most crowded refugee camp. Both superlatives, unfortunately, were short-lived. As R.P.F. mortar fire zeroed in on the hills surrounding Gisenyi last Wednesday, another sea of refugees, many originally from the Kigali area, surged out. Jostling along narrow dirt roads, loaded with food, clothes, pots...
...government's greatest challenge will be in persuading the Hutu to return. About 350,000 in the Tanzanian camps have so far failed to do so, despite relative peace in eastern Rwanda. The rebels claim -- with some accuracy -- that they have been held back by members of the same vicious anti- Tutsi militias that last month threatened to execute aid workers who refused to feed or house a notorious war criminal. A useful first step in luring them back would be the silencing of the interim government's radio station, which continue to air anti-Tutsi propaganda...
Without the return of the Hutu, the Tutsi victory, along with the landscape, will remain empty indeed. "Their country is like a desert," crowed former government official Jean Bosco Barayagwiza before going into hiding. "How do you rule a nation when there is nobody left to govern?" The R.P.F. has begun by choosing as the new Prime Minister Faustin Twangirimungu, a Hutu moderate like many killed alongside the Tutsi during the pogroms. This hardly indicates , a blanket Hutu amnesty: R.P.F. vice chairman Patrick Mazimhaka claims that genocide was "party policy" on the part of the Habyarimana regime. Yet he insists...
...have to persuade the Hutu people of our good intentions," admitted Mazimhaka. "If we succeed, then they will come back." That's a big if. And no one cares to contemplate the consequences if they fail...
Hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees fled from advancing Tutsi-led rebels, crossing the frontier into Zaire at a rate of up to 30,000 an hour. The rebels now control three-quarters of the country, including the capital of Kigali, a virtual ghost town without water, electricity or food. The rebels say they are willing to share power with their enemy, the ethnic Hutu majority, to form a new government because as much as half of Rwanda's Tutsi population has been massacred...