Word: hutu
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...money-laundering filters and auditing the accounts of Islamic charities, follow U.S. criticism that Saudi authorities were not doing enough to stem the flow of funds to radical groups. BURUNDI In the Balance The government signed a cease-fire with the Forces for the Defense of Democracy, a Hutu group, and a peace plan that dismantles the country's old army and replaces it with one made up of both government troops and ex-rebels. The deal raised hopes for an end to a nine-year civil war that has killed at least 300,000 people. But another Hutu rebel...
...least 75,000 refugees to try sneaking illegally into the U.K. since 2001. Six immigrants died and 100 were injured making the crossing. The camp currently holds about 1,500 people, mostly Iraqi Kurds and Afghans. BURUNDI Peace Out of Time Negotiations between Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya and ethnic Hutu rebels ended without a cease-fire deal. The talks followed fighting in Gitega province that forced 55,000 people to flee their homes. Leaders of East Africa's Great Lakes states - including Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania - will now decide which side was responsible for the deadlock and whether to carry...
...reply to fascism with relief supplies, and you don't counter ethnic cleansing with reception centers for the displaced." Oxfam called for a cease-fire during the Rwandan genocide, but as an observer pointed out, that would have left half of Rwanda in the hands of those Hutu perpetrating the genocide and thus would have allowed them to finish what they had started in the zone they controlled. Grotesquely, the presence of humanitarians, in one aid expert's words, "far from representing a bulwark against evil, [may become] in fact one of its appendages...
...marks a shift in France's policy toward her former African colonies. In the past, France regularly sent soldiers to prop up governments and dictators close to Paris. But following criticism of France's role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide - France allegedly continued to arm and support Rwanda's Hutu-led government even after the murder of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu began - President Chirac declared that the age of unilateral action was over. The Foreign Ministry in Paris still insists that French troops will not "play an active role in any military conflict." But the French soldiers...
...four-year war that has killed about 2.5 million people and effectively divided one of Africa's biggest countries in two. The agreement, signed in South Africa, requires Rwanda to withdraw its troops from eastern Congo within three months. In return the Congolese government in Kinshasa would disarm the Hutu responsible for the 1994 genocide of Tutsi tribespeople in Rwanda and send their leaders for trial before an international court. Skeptics questioned the deadline, and an organization representing Rwandan Hutu rebels in Congo rejected the peace deal. The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda said they would not return...