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...over the region's plentiful natural resources - the war in Congo is immeasurably more complicated than the one in Rwanda. But in other ways, it's a direct sequel. The rebels now advancing on Goma, for instance, are led by General Laurent Nkunda, an ethnic Tutsi fighting remnant Rwandan Hutu militias...
...Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya. Akpan's method is to present scenes of extreme violence and degradation from a child's point of view. A young boy watches his sister practice prostitution; a man sells his niece and nephew into slavery; a girl looks on as her Tutsi father kills her Hutu mother with a machete. And so on. These stories are so frightening and upsetting, and offer so little in the way of closure or consolation, that you wonder what the point is of subjecting yourself to them--they exist at the border between realism and snuff. There's a basic...
...there have been outbreaks of violence between Kenya's 42 tribes, including in 1992 when 2,000 people were killed. But the ferocity of the anger directed solely at Kikuyu is new, and the church killing in particular has ominous echoes of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when moderate Hutu and Tutsi were also massacred in churches where they had gathered in the thousands to seek safety. "Maybe in Burundi or Rwanda," commented one U.N. official. "But I never thought this could happen in Kenya...
Analysts and U.N. officials saw echoes of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, when churches were turned into slaughterhouses for some of the 800,000 moderate Hutu and Tutsi victims. "Maybe in Burundi or Rwanda, but I never thought this could happen in Kenya," one U.N. official said...
...TIME: You have an ambivalence towards the international community. Kagame: Look at the past few decades. Rwanda was always among those countries that was praised for one thing or another. Even when there was nothing to praise Rwanda for, really. Under [former hardline Hutu President Juvenal] Habyarimana's government, people were talking about how Rwanda is peaceful, Rwanda is stable. But our people were just living on hand-outs. Now, the question comes for our donors and partners: having spent so much money, what difference did it make? In the last 50 years, you've spent $400 billion...