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...friends and doing favors across racial and national boundaries. He knows when an obsequious word or a proffered bottle of single-malt Scotch will do him the most good with corrupt local officialdom. And he is doing his best to ignore the rising tensions between his country's ruling Hutu tribe (of which he is a member) and the rebellious Tutsi...
Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. The genocide, of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu majority, was the culmination of long-simmering tensions between two ethnic groups whose differences were exacerbated by Belgian colonists in the early twentieth century. Following the assassination of a Hutu president, the Tutsi became the targets of a reactionary attempt at organized ethnic cleansing...
...most votes, but not an outright majority. Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and the center-right Justice and Truth Alliance's Traian Basescu face a runoff vote for President on Dec. 12. Neighborhood Dispute DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Kigali denied reports that its troops entered eastern DRC to track down Hutu rebels involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, despite earlier threats to do so. Heightened tensions have raised fears of a renewed war between the two countries...
...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...