Word: rwandans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While Rwandans set about hacking one another to pieces in the frenzy of killing that followed the April assassinations, Burundi's Hutu and Tutsi parties struggled to agree on a new President. They might have succeeded if the Rwandan capital of Kigali had not fallen to the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan | Patriotic Front on July 4. The victory emboldened Burundi's Tutsi opposition to make more demands, creating a dangerous stalemate. "There is a government, but the whole structure is weak and barely functioning," says a Western diplomat in Bujumbura. "There are 27 ministers, 11 of whom are from the opposition...
...inciting riots, Tutsi youths in Bujumbura organized a general strike and set up barricades of burning tires to prevent people from going to work. Quiet returned to the city a few days later but was quickly broken when grenades were lobbed into crowds. Hutu extremist groups, newly armed with Rwandan weapons coming into Burundi from Zaire, have reorganized to mount counterattacks...
When a group of cabinet ministers from the new Tutsi-dominated Rwandan government arrived in the town of Cyangugu in the French-protected safety zone last Friday afternoon, several thousand people flocked to the local stadium to hear their words. Amid the commotion, few remarked on the site from which the ministers hoped to persuade 100,000 Hutu refugees that if they return to their homes, they will not suffer reprisals for the massacres of up to 500,000 Tutsi. Barely four months ago, this same stadium was crammed with tens of thousands of Tutsi men, women and children waiting...
...United Nations is speeding up its investigations into the mass killings in Rwanda's three-month civil war, in an attempt to head off the new Rwandan government's plans for its own trials. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali gave a three-member investigative commission up to four months to find out whether defeated Hutu officers -- most of them now encamped in Zaire -- should face an international tribunal. The Tutsi-controlled Kigali government agreed...
There are plenty of rumors, but little hard evidence. Nevertheless, fear of Tutsi revenge for 500,000 murders keeps more than 2 million Rwandan refugees huddled in disease-ridden camps along the country's borders. Some observers believe the horrifying stories are not just propaganda from defeated extremists of the Rwandan army. A U.N. relief official claims large numbers of Hutu are still fleeing from Rwanda: "They are scared of something, and it's not other Hutu." Two weeks ago, he says, U.N. aid workers driving near the border with Burundi saw about 50 bodies lying beside the road. "They...