Word: hutu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
KIGALI, Rwanda: Suspected Hutu rebels attacked a Tutsi refugee camp with hand grenades, guns and machetes, killing more than 200 people and wounding 200 more in northwestern Rwanda Thursday. For a region that has undergone sweeping and hopeful changes in the last year, the massacre signals the return of an old scourge...
...could have been worse. The marshaling of mass anger is an ancient art and, in even more cynical and calculating hands, a deadly one. In our lifetime it has been used to make the mob bay not for the tears of the Windsors but for the blood of the Hutu...
...there are rumors of military intervention in Burundi. Talks to arrange power sharing between warring Tutsi and Hutu factions are faltering, economic sanctions have not cooled the fighting and the violence threatens to spill over into Tanzania. Museveni told TIME that before U.S. ambassador Michael Southwick left Kampala at the end of July, he delivered a "verbal note" warning Uganda against exercising a military option in Burundi. Says Museveni: "I ignored it." The Ugandan President has also been told by Washington to keep out of Kenya, where riots are undermining the increasingly troubled regime of Daniel arap...
...plight of the refugees has raised disturbing questions about Kabila's intentions. Is he in control of his forces and therefore ordering revenge attacks on the Hutu, or is he a weak leader unable to prevent them? Says State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns: "We will hold Kabila responsible for the conduct of his own soldiers." Uganda's Museveni has been telling Kabila he was "spoiling" his reputation by treating the refugees so cruelly...
Last October Kagame staged a cross-border incursion, joining Zairean Tutsi rebels to rout murderous Hutu militias that had fled across the frontier with the civilian refugees. When Mobutu's army vanished in the face of this onslaught, a full-scale Zairean rebellion suddenly seemed possible. Museveni told his Rwandan friend to tap Laurent Kabila as the leader of a broader movement, and today Kabila, with key help from Kagame, is ready to take Zaire...