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...BELGIUM Nuns on Trial in Rwandan Genocide Four Rwandans, including two Roman Catholic nuns, went on trial in Brussels in connection with the 1994 genocide in the Central African country once administered by Belgium. They pleaded not guilty to assisting the Hutu killers. The trial is the first under a Belgian law allowing charges to be brought in the country for human rights crimes committed anywhere...
...radio and aired a taped statement that said, "The government that is killing people is over." But within hours the rebel troops had surrendered. Buyoya, who was in Gabon holding talks to end Burundi's civil war, returned home the next day without incident. Fighting between ethnic Tutsi and Hutu in Burundi has killed at least 200,000 people since...
Kagame gave a short speech on his nation's domestic progress since Rwanda's 1994 genocide--in which Hutu extremists slaughtered as many as one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 90 days--that propelled the central African nation to the forefront of internationl news...
...Kagame led the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) to overthrow the Hutu power regime, halting the genocide...
Some have charged that Kagame's emphasis on merit over ethnicity simply hides the influence of Rwanda's Tutsi minority. But in dividing Rwandan politics into undifferentiated Hutu and Tutsi camps, these critics miss the point: the most important positions in Rwanda (as well as a disproportionate share of places in government, the army and schools) are held by Tutsi raised in exile, not the Tutsi who endured years of discrimination in Rwanda and lived through the genocide...