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...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...
...women between July 8 and 18. That protest ended after the oil giant agreed to build schools and clinics, provide water and electricity service, set up farms and create jobs. BURUNDI Talks Abandoned Talks in Tanzania aimed at bringing peace to Burundi were abandoned by both the government and Hutu rebels. In the most serious fighting since a power-sharing agreement between Tutsi and Hutu began last November, the Burundi army said it had killed more than 200 Hutu rebels in two weeks. Most of the rebels were killed at Gitega, 100 km east of the capital Bujumbura, where...
...Rwandan family went unaffected in the genocide that pitted the majority Hutu population against the Tutsis, with nearly 115,000 Rwandans suspected of having taken part in the machete-wielding frenzy...