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...objective was for ?justice to be seen to be done? -- but apparently not to be seen too widely or recorded: Rwanda staged public executions today of 22 Hutu militants convicted of taking part in the 1994 genocide of the country's Tutsi minority. But police enforced a strict ban on cameras and recording devices. In the capital, Kigali, 30,000 people flocked to the soccer stadium to see three men and one woman shot one by one as they were tied to stakes with black hoods over their heads. Some of the 18 other executions in provincial towns were attended...
...hardly practical for Rwanda to try the more than 120,000 Hutu militants held on charges relating to the 1994 genocide against Tutsis. "The government is concentrating on the organizers of the genocide," says Mutiso. "Eventually, they'll release the bulk of prisoners who confess and repent." One factor that may boost attendance at Kigali's soccer stadium by the ghoulishly curious: The execution method hasn't been announced...
Scheffer said he believes the U.S.--no longer distracted by the Cold War--has been able to focus on the recent atrocities in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. These new concerns have unveiled a new threat, he said...
That's a grim warning for people in many of the world's flash points, from Cambodia to Mexico to Bosnia. But it is also a call for increased vigilance from the international community and a move away from the widely held view that tribalism is unavoidable. Visiting Rwanda last month, President Clinton acknowledged that the 1994 bloodletting was "certainly not the result of ancient tribal struggles...All over the world, there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed...
...were cattle keepers and that Hutu mainly raised crops, but the division was arbitrary. "The Hutu and Tutsi are one people, with one language, who eat the same food and dress the same way," Bizimana says. "We follow the same occupations, worship together and intermarry. The real source of Rwanda's divisions is not ethnic but political and economic...