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...ARMY HELICOPTER CAME IN over the marketplace at noon one day last month. Machine-gun fire ripped from the sky, pounding into the dirt, ricocheting off roofs and sending hundreds of Hutu men, women and children scattering for cover under rickety stalls. Suzanne Nyahimana, 45, was hit almost immediately, her forearm shattered. Frantically rounding up her five children--her husband had been killed in fighting several months earlier--she fled with them from the northwestern Burundian village of Nyabitaka into the hills, eventually crossing the Rusizi River to a refugee camp in neighboring Zaire. "I will never go back," Nyahimana...
...more than two years, the tiny central African nation of Burundi has been at war with itself. As in neighboring Rwanda, the country's minority Tutsi tribe, once the overlords of this former Belgian colony, are engaged in a deadly conflict with the once subservient but more populous Hutu. Human-rights workers report that clashes between the Tutsi-dominated army and Hutu rebels left some 15,000 dead last year, most of them civilians from both tribes caught between the warring parties. The killing continues: moderate government officials, students, foreign diplomats and aid workers have all been targeted. In recent...
United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali pledged to honor Rwanda's demand that the U.N. end its two-year peacekeeping mission, which officially expires this Friday. Military forces could be gone within three months. Though millions of Hutu refugees from the losing side of Rwanda's violent civil war fear revenge from victorious Tutsis should they venture home, the Kigali government insists there is no need for an international police force within its borders. That's true up to a point, Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis reports: "The government can provide security for the Tutsis, but there...
Mukaremera, a Hutu, claims she was arbitrarily arrested on the accusations of a vengeful Tutsi neighbor when she returned from a refugee camp last year...
...before that? Did the Hutu militias kill anyone? The reporter meant Tutsis...