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...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...
...reason for the apathy is painfully base: Hutus and Tutsis are not Bosnians and Croats. Few Hutus and Tutsis live abroad; unlike Serbs and Croats, no international network of kinspeople can be enlisted to save them. They are not united with people all over the world by religion, as are the Bosnian Muslims. Their economic importance to the major powers cannot be underemphasized. No historical significance can be attached to their region and their struggle by the West. In effect, the people of Rwanda must be worth next to nothing in the eyes of the plenum of the U.N. Lack...
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...
This time the desperate nation was Burundi. Vicious fighting erupted in the central African state when military officers from the Tutsi tribe murdered President Melchior Ndadaye, a member of the rival Hutus. As the attempted coup collapsed, both tribes massacred thousands of people and put hundreds of thousands to flight. Please, government officials begged the United Nations, send us peacekeepers...
...numbers of the dead would surely qualify that entry (one thinks mordantly) for some genocidal hall of fame. Perhaps that is the sort of museum we need on the edge of the Mall: a home for all the great blood scandals: the Armenians slaughtered by the Turks, the Hutus slain by the Tutsis in Burundi, the Cambodians who have died in Pol Pot's haunting imitation of Stalin's barbarisms...