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...UNITY You can have too much or too little. The Kurds have long been thwarted by their internal rivalries. The Kosovars are feared because they might unite with ethnic brothers in Albania and Macedonia. Physical dispersal is an even greater obstacle: How would you separate territorially Rwanda's intermingled Hutu and Tutsi...
...worth asking these things in the face of the approaching winter in Kosovo: the genocidal impulses that led the Hutu to slaughter 1 million Tutsi (give or take) in 1994 are (allowing for a few regional differences, such as machetes and skin color) identical to the tribal bloodlusts at work in the Balkans. Eerily the same: the neighbors who suddenly turn a killing fury upon neighbors, the roving bands fueled round the clock on alcohol, the strange, dull light in the murderers' eyes, the sudden civic duty to exterminate the Other...
...resistance as they follow the rebels east," Mutiso says. "The jungle that covers Congo's heart makes communication with the west nonexistent -- it's a natural obstacle to any offensive." Then there's the matter of what will happen to the rebels, ethnic Tutsi in a country dominated by Hutu, if they lose. "The rebels saw what happened to those caught in Kinshasa: They were slaughtered," says Mutiso. "Surrender would be signing their own death warrant. Their backs are to the wall but as long as they have bullets, they'll keep fighting...
...Kabila had no agenda except power," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "He spent almost 30 years in opposition and Mobutu's demise took him completely by surprise. Once he achieved power he didn't know what to do with it." It was his failure to clamp down on Hutu rebels using eastern Congo as a base from which to attack Rwanda that prompted Kabila's erstwhile sponsors to seek his ouster. "When Kabila last week began recruiting 12-year-olds to fight off these seasoned, well-trained, well-equipped fighters, it was clear that he had little chance of holding...
...Kabila's failure to stop attacks on Rwanda by Hutu militants operating out of Congo angered his erstwhile sponsors, but the last straw came when Kabila ordered Rwandan troops out of the capital and his supporters began attacking Tutsi civilians. "This is an extremely emotive issue for the Rwandans and Burundians given the recent genocide," says Mutiso. "Once Kabila's government began whipping up anti-Tutsi sentiment, Rwanda felt compelled to act." With the battle lines drawn by Kabila's anti-Tutsi purge, Congo's president may wind up with plenty of time to mull over the maxim that...