Word: hutu
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...feels as though we are losing our sense of humanity. My hope for the future of our world is diminished each time we blatantly ignore the needs of our fellow human beings. Kristy Caruso Sauquoit, New York, U.S. A decade after the genocidal murders of the Tutsi by the Hutu, Rwandans are still confronting the memory of their worst crisis. Today the Janjaweed are similarly butchering black people in Darfur by the thousands, yet the U.N. has refused to call it genocide. Maybe the tragedy will fit that definition when thousands of human skulls are stacked up in memorials...
...SENTENCED. PASTEUR BIZIMUNGU, 54, Rwanda's first President after the 1994 genocide; to 15 years in jail for diverting public funds, inciting civil disobedience and associating with criminals; in Kigali, Rwanda. Bizimungu, a member of Rwanda's majority Hutu ethnic group, came to power with the Tutsi rebels who ended the extremist Hutu-led killing of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. He quit the presidency in 2000, and was arrested after forming a political party. Defenders allege his conviction is politically motivated...
...just a matter of when to show the body of a dead American soldier; we've wrestled with what is appropriate to show when covering the carnage in Rwanda in the mid-1990s, when hundreds of thousands of Tutsi were massacred by the Hutu, and during the recent uprising in Haiti, when I viewed photographs of bodies piled up in morgues that were among the most unsettling images I've ever seen. (In that particular case, photographs of the chaos on Port-au-Prince's streets were so vivid that I chose to use them to illustrate the story...
...horrors as the Ottoman massacre of the Armenians, the Nazi Holocaust, the crimes of Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein's gassing of the Kurds. In each case, Power argued, U.S. policymakers "did almost nothing to deter the crime." During atrocities like Saddam's slaughter of the Kurds and the Hutu killing of 800,000 Tutsi in Rwanda, the U.S.'s refusal to intervene emboldened the killers even more...
Dallaire also discussed the ethical quandary he faced when negotiating with Hutu leaders responsible for the genocide...