Word: rwandans
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...were biologically superior as well. This engendered a level of resentment previously unseen in the region. "Tutsi and Hutu have killed each other more to upbraid a vision they have of themselves and the others than for material interests," historian Gerard Prunier wrote in his account of the 1994 Rwandan holocaust. "That is what makes the killing so relentless...
Hutu and Tutsi have lived in eastern Zaire for generations, many of them immigrating to the region to till the sparsely populated hillsides in the 1930s, and still more being driven across the border by violence at the time of Rwandan independence in 1959. Since then Hutu of Rwandan ancestry have outnumbered both Tutsi immigrants and indigenous tribes. This imbalance, along with a government decree stripping Rwandan immigrants and their descendants of Zairian citizenship, spawned tension that flared into fighting in 1993. That conflict pitted Hutu against indigenous Hunde tribesmen and was marked by gruesome rituals, with Hunde sometimes eating...
Unarmed Tutsi civilians, most of them landholders, are bearing the brunt of the ethnic cleansing. Despite decades of peaceful coexistence with local Hutu, at least 50,000 Tutsi have been forced to flee since 1995, most to squalid refugee camps just across the Rwandan border. In the Masisi highlands, two small groups of Tutsi remain. Desire Gaspira, 40, a veterinary nurse born in the area, is among them. "Before, Tutsi and Hutu worked together," he said last month. "We drank together. We were brothers. Now we are enemies." In nearby Goma a Tutsi aid worker explained the dilemma facing...
Your article "the goodwill pill Mess" [BUSINESS, April 29], about medicines that are given away to countries in need, implied that Eli Lilly & Co.'s donation of its antibiotic CeclorCD during the Rwandan refugee crisis was unwanted and not of use. Far from being unwanted, Lilly's 1994 antibiotic donation was specifically requested by the American Red Cross and other U.S. private voluntary organizations. And far from not being useful, cefaclor, the active ingredient in CeclorCD, has demonstrated its value in countries at all stages of economic development. It is the world's largest-selling oral antibiotic. Furthermore, the entire...
...when lifesaving should have been paramount. (General Norman Schwarzkopf has also sniped in print about Franklin's insistence on sending thousands of Arabic-language New Testaments into Saudi Arabia while the general was trying hard to honor Islamic sensibilities during Operation Desert Storm.) But in hot spots like the Rwandan capital of Kigali, the outfit's reputation is solid...