Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, diplomatic intervention in both countries in the early 1990s triggered the bloodiest massacres to date. A U.N.-backed campaign to secure power sharing for Rwanda's Tutsi minority provoked Hutu extremist politicians to conceive a plan that would rid the country of all Tutsi, even the young. To incite...
The lesson learned throughout the region from the staggering death tolls, sums up one senior U.S. diplomat, is "if you don't strike first, you risk annihilation." That belief led to last week's military coup in Burundi. When the coalition government designed to protect the interests of both sides...
BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Killing to prevent more killing seems to make sense in Burundi. A day after the Tutsi-led military deposed the Central African country's Hutu president, the leader of the coup, Pierre Buyoya, said that was exactly what he was doing. "The change is not a classic coup...
BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Ever since at least 500,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda's ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in...
BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Ever since at least 500,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda's ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in...