Word: supremacist
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...President. "It's democracy with constraints," says the diplomat. "You're free to criticize, but you can't bring up the ethnic question, or you'll end up in jail." Kagame points out that it was a free press that fostered genocide. (In the early 1990s, the Hutu supremacist Radio Mille Collines broadcast messages for Hutus to "weed their fields" and "eliminate ... the cockroaches" - a signal for the genocide to begin.) "With time, [freedom] is only increasing," says Kagame. "But if people expected us to start from 100% ... Take a moment, and look at what we went through...
...continent full of distrust for the West, Kagame has more reasons than most for ambivalence. It was Rwanda's second colonial rulers, the Belgians, who formalized the division between Tutsis and Hutus in 1932 by issuing identity cards that specified ethnicity. That divide festered through two Hutu supremacist regimes, which were latterly supported by France. Then it erupted in genocide and the world was nowhere to be seen...
...Critics will decry the fact that the U.N. has taken so long (four years and counting) to consider meaningful action, and even then to not do enough, but the British assessment reflects reality. The fighting in Darfur, which pitches Arab supremacist militias backed by the Sudanese army against Darfur rebels, has killed an estimated 200,000 people and left 2 million homeless. Against that, the U.N. has authorized a force of 26,000 peacekeepers whose mandate is limited to monitoring - but never seizing - arms, and which can only act defensively to protect civilians and the free movement of humanitarian workers...
...Darfur atrocities described by President Bush as genocide are perpetrated by the Arab supremacist Janjaweed militia, with support from Sudanese troops, against the farmer population of Darfur, who are mostly black Africans. In four years of fighting in this eastern, semi-desert region of Sudan, 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced. Last November, Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir finally agreed to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7,000-strong African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Darfur. Then, after five months of stalling, the Sudanese President gave the go-ahead in April...
...February 5, 2001: Hoyt, Kansas Three students, ages 16, 17, and 18, plan a school shooting. An anonymous caller to a tip line alerts police. When their homes are searched, police discover guns, bombs, and white supremacist drawings...