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...lines were swept away by flood water and mud. Many villagers fled to higher ground after they saw cracks developing in the six-year-old dam, which may have been overfilled by 5 million cu m because of exceptionally heavy winter rains. BURUNDI Rebels Fight On Rebels from the Hutu-dominated National Liberation Forces (NLF) attacked a military position north of Bujumbura, forcing thousands of people living in the northern neighborhoods of the capital to flee their homes as fighting neared and shells slammed into the center of the city. A transitional government, accepted by 17 political parties, was inaugurated...
...most frightening example is 1930s Germany. A majority of Germans may not have been Nazis, but the majority followed blindly (or fearfully) when the Nazis embarked on their campaign of extermination. In 1993, too few moderate Hutus in Rwanda spoke up against the Hutu extremists. Granted, these are the most extreme cases—both of which resulted in genocides—and it is unlikely that either Israel or America will ever commit crimes on this level of inhumanity. But the point remains: when the people follow the government blindly and unquestioningly, disaster is sure to follow. Democracy needs...
...Look At Me explores the potential consequences of America’s insatiable image and information driven mass culture. What emerges is a lurid caricature of the 1990s: a “beautiful, starving Hutu refugee” models to satisfy the craze for “real” people; Charlotte’s saving grace is an Internet start-up which broadcasts, recounts and eventually rewrites the lives of representative Ordinary People (such as coal miners, fishermen, the homeless, addicts and farmers) and selected Extraordinary People (like herself) via the Internet; a terrorist is assimilated...
SENTENCED. FOUR RWANDANS, including two Catholic nuns; to prison terms of 12 to 20 years; for their roles in the 1994 Hutu extermination of the Tutsi in Rwanda; in Brussels. The nuns turned over as many as 7,000 people seeking refuge in their convent to the Hutu militia...
...then, collateral damage has even aspired to achieve an extermination. The Holocaust represented the ultimate infliction of the form. Tribes less well organized than the Germans (Serbs and Croats, Hutu and Tutsi) conduct raggedy versions of a similar ethnic malevolence...