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When Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down by a rocket last Wednesday, previously moderate fighting between the powerful Tutsi minority and the president's Hutu loyalists escalated to tragic proportions. As in Bosnia and Croatia, race has become the only criterion for murder. Hundred of thousands of people--Hutus and Tutsis--are fleeing Kigali, but they have nowhere to go. Espcaping the fighting gives them a chance at life, but starvation is already claiming thousands in the barren lands around the city...
...interests of the West. The plight of the Rwandans should have gravity equal to that of the splintered races in what was Yugoslavia. Who can say that a Croat is worth more than a Tutsi? Who can say that a U.N. "peacekeeper" from France is worth more than a Hutu? Plenty of French people certainly can, but that doesn't mean that they're right...
Avenging the killing of 200 members of the Hutu ethnic group by their longtime enemies in a raid in the Burundi capital, Hutus murdered dozens of Tutsis. Nearly 100,000 people were killed in rioting last October when the country's first Hutu leader was killed by the Tutsi-dominated military...
...rebels who seized control of the park are Tutsis, an ethnic group trying to reclaim land they lost more than three decades ago during a civil war with Rwanda's majority Hutu tribe. The marauding insurgents have threatened the lives of the gorillas (only 300 remain in the sanctuary) by driving out game wardens and destroying habitat. Moreover, they have ransacked a research center that was run for nearly two decades by the American naturalist Dian Fossey. Her pioneering work with the great apes was made famous in the film Guerrillas . . . make that Gorillas in the Mist...
...hatred is sweeping the world, dismaying and perplexing fair-minded people who are at a loss to explain it. Why are Jewish cemeteries in France and Italy being desecrated? Why are Turks in Bulgaria and Koreans in Japan viewed as infections in the national bloodstream? Why do Africa's Hutu and Tutsi tribes continue to slaughter one another? Social scientists are not much help with such questions. They generally regard ethnocentrism -- a preference for one's own group -- as an innate human characteristic, and they have produced little significant research on the virulent course these feelings often take...