Word: hutu
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...surrounding eucalyptus trees. Their leaves, rustling in the wind, are all that moves. In the cool of the parish church, a body lies between the rough wooden pews, its skull split from crown to forehead by a machete blade. Outside, a mother and child, caught from behind by screaming Hutu militia, lie face down in the flowers, locked in a pitiful final embrace. Farther away, in a low mission building, 400 more bodies are piled on one another, the rooms thick with the stench of rotting flesh. One woman and her baby tried to hide in a small pit toilet...
...into focus. Late last week rebels seized the town of Kabgayi, releasing up to 20,000 Tutsi who had been held captive by government soldiers. At one camp, a local priest reported that 50 Tutsi were dying each day, some taken out and killed under cover of darkness by Hutu militia, others dying from untreated bullet and machete wounds. "Our people have too much hatred," rebel soldier Patrick Kayilanga, 24, said last week in Kigali. When rebels took the city's main airport recently, Kayilanga discovered that both his parents and 10 brothers and sisters had been massacred...
...predominately Tutsi rebel movement that now seems destined to form the next government of bloodstained Rwanda, that is a haunting lament. As they press their advantage against government troops and murderous Hutu militia, the rebels of the Rwandese Patriotic Front are beginning to realize how little of their tiny Central African homeland will be left for them if and when the R.P.F. takes control. Mile upon mile of terraced hillsides and thatch-roofed villages lies deserted. The reek of decomposing bodies and packs of well-fed dogs serve as the only reminders that this was once one of the most...
After two months of bloodletting, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans have fled to neighboring countries -- some to escape the butchery; others, including Hutu who joined in the killing, fearing retribution from the rebels. Up to 2 million more have jammed into camps within Rwanda, seeking safety in numbers. Most are in government-held territory in the western and southwestern parts of the country, out of reach of aid agencies and at severe risk for epidemics and starvation. United Nations peacekeepers, deployed in the once picturesque capital of Kigali now being shelled into a sprawling ruin, concede they are powerless...
...estimated 15,000 to 20,000 soldiers of the R.P.F., it has been a bitter homecoming. Many were born or have lived most of their life in exile, their families driven from the former Belgian colony after the Hutu ousted the Tutsi elite from power in 1959. In neighboring Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Uganda, they suffered the indignities of the stateless: scapegoats for the political crises of the day. Through it all, the exiles saw their homeland as a mythical country of verdant hillsides and crystal lakes, whose people and terrain they could glimpse only in textbooks. "I didn...