Word: rwandans
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GOMA, Zaire: Rwandan refugees and displaced Zairians began flocking toward home today as if the doors to their cells suddenly had been flung open, and across the world, diplomats were crossing their fingers. A Tutsi offensive had driven Hutu forces westward into Zaire, potentially forcing the Hutu militias to relinquish control of the bursting Mugunga refugee camp that has served as a barren purgatory to more than 1 million people, and as cover for thousands of militiamen hiding from their enemies. A significant exodus would greatly ease the need for the U.N. humanitarian and military intervention that has been hurriedly...
...their roles in the Tutsi genocide, which many still seemed determined to carry to its end. Since then the camps have provided these groups with a base from which to wage their struggle to overthrow the Tutsi-dominated government that replaced them in Rwanda. For its part, the Rwandan government has been anxious to root out the guerrillas. After several deals with Zaire to close the camps, each of which fell through, a chance for more forceful action finally arose with the plight of the Banyamulenge...
...struggle, and there has been little justice for the victims so far. But after more than two years, the first hearings began Thursday in Arusha at the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. First to stand before the tribunal is Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former Hutu mayor of the Rwandan village of Taba. He is charged with inciting Hutu militias in 1994 to the mass murder of Tutsis. Akayesu's lawyer is expected to seek a delay, saying he hasn't had adequate time to prepare a defense. TIME's Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis that the prosecution...
Your article correctly states that under a monarchy both Rwanda and Burundi "had achieved a measure of cohesion rare in Africa at the time." It fails, however, to draw the obvious conclusion that disintegration occurred in 1969 when Belgium, not the Rwandan people, expelled His Majesty King Kigeli V, and that reintegration is contingent on his restoration. Interestingly, last month the King addressed supporters in Montreal who consisted of Hutu and Tutsi joined in a common cause. KENNETH GUNN-WALBERG Philipsburg, Pennsylvania...
Independence ushered in a new, bloodier era. With the dissolution of the monarchies and removal of an external Belgian military force, the struggle for power became more overtly ethnic at all levels of society. At this point, Rwanda and Burundi took different paths. In 1959 Rwandan Hutu launched a murderous uprising and forced the creation of a majority-controlled republic, which survived until 1994. In Burundi, by contrast, the Tutsi remained in control. Both armies were dominated by the ruling tribe and did not hesitate to suppress uprisings by the opposing ethnic group. Peasant revolts in Burundi...