Word: rwanda
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Amnesty International members distributed information on the organization's "women campaign" and collected signatures for petitions protesting human rights violations against women in Mexico, Rwanda, China and Kuwait...
That may not be far from the truth. For more than two years, the tiny central African nation of Burundi has been at war with itself. As in neighboring Rwanda, the country's minority Tutsi tribe, once the overlords of this former Belgian colony, are engaged in a deadly conflict with the once subservient but more populous Hutu. Human-rights workers report that clashes between the Tutsi-dominated army and Hutu rebels left some 15,000 dead last year, most of them civilians from both tribes caught between the warring parties. The killing continues: moderate government officials, students, foreign diplomats...
...crisis has again caught the attention of the international community. Shamed by their failure to prevent the massacre of more than 500,000 people in Rwanda, senior officials--from United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Madeleine Albright--have sounded the alarm in recent weeks. But once again international action--if it ever comes-may be too late to save Burundi from self-destruction. "What is happening here is like a poison gas," warns U.N. senior political adviser Hani Abdel-Aziz in Bujumbura. "You don't feel it because you don't have...
Certainly no one has a monopoly on murder and ethnic cleansing in Burundi. As in Rwanda, majority Hutu and minority Tutsi have set upon each other periodically since the two countries gained independence from Belgium in the early 1960s. Neither group has shown much tolerance for the political ambitions of the other. Burundi's current crisis began in 1993, when Tutsi soldiers assassinated Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu and the country's first democratically elected President, after he threatened to bring an end to 30 years of Tutsi domination. The killing triggered an orgy of revenge; some 50,000 Burundians died...
This year an "important goal" of the U.S. is to help nations in not only the peace process itself, but the aftermath as well, he said. The U.S. will "help the War Crime Tribunals establish accountability in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for two of the greatest tragedies of this decade," he said...