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Should that dark day become a reality, the tragic loss of human life in Nigeria shall dwarf the Rwandan genocide. Only then shall the international community begin to bicker about how best to alleviate the expanding human catastrophe. In 1990, Shell oil's request for police protection for its installations instigated the Umuechem massacre in which hundreds of villagers were butchered to death. Even at this moment seventeen more environmental activists face the death penalty. That is why we argue that Shell Oil is Nigerian blood...
Africa Rights says women's traditional image as peace-loving nurturers has hoped female killers escape the scrutiny of the Tutsi-led Rwandan Petriotic Front, which won last year's civil war and now runs the country...
...Rwanda, Hutu continued to return to their home villages from refugee camps-including Kibeho, where an estimated 2,000 were slain on April 22, most of them by Rwandan army soldiers from the Tutsi ethnic group. The violence erupted when the army began dispersing the Hutu refugees-some of whom were involved in the slaughter of more than 500,000 Tutsi and some Hutu last year-from several camps in southwestern Rwanda. About 2 million Hutu remain refugees in neighboring countries...
Officials in Burundi and the world outside have been watching anxiously to see if the Rwandan nightmare would repeat itself here. The ethnic makeup in Burundi is the same as in Rawanda: 80% Hutu, 15% Tutsi. The difference is that in Burundi, the minority Tutsi have always controlled the armed forces, while in Rwanda the majority had the weapons. After the assassination of two Presidents in 18 months, the current government is a shaky coalition of the two rival tribal groups. Moderates willing to compromise are dumped by their own faction, and, says a senior foreign-aid worker, "the country...
Several hundred Hutu were killed by marauding Tutsi in a racially mixed neighborhood in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, raising the specter of widespread ethnic violence. Last year in neighboring Rwanda, genocidal massacres killed 500,000, mostly Tutsi. In Burundi, tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees decided not to wait for help and began walking to Tanzania--a two-day trek...