Word: tutsi
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...honest, I did not even know the people we went to kill," says Gerard Uwize, clutching a Bible and songbook. In 1994, Uwize joined a venomous swarm of Hutu militia that, with Rwandan government backing, unleashed hell against their Tutsi neighbors. In 100 days, using guns, machetes, clubs and spears, they slaughtered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. And now Uwize and thousands of other killers are coming home. At the end of January Uwize, 37, walked out of a Kigali prison carrying a small green plastic bag containing his entire wardrobe and a sack filled with the odds...
...which he designed for Japan’s Odawara Festival, he is also known for his humanitarian work. Ban’s lightweight, inexpensive and simple paper tube structures, dubbed “log cabins,” were used to create temporary housing in 1994 for Tutsi refugees from genocide in Rwanda and in 1995 for victims of the Kobe earthquake...
...Channel Tunnel led at least 75,000 refugees to try sneaking illegally into the U.K. since 2001. Six immigrants died and 100 were injured making the crossing. The camp currently holds about 1,500 people, mostly Iraqi Kurds and Afghans. BURUNDI Peace Out of Time Negotiations between Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya and ethnic Hutu rebels ended without a cease-fire deal. The talks followed fighting in Gitega province that forced 55,000 people to flee their homes. Leaders of East Africa's Great Lakes states - including Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania - will now decide which side was responsible for the deadlock...
...African colonies. In the past, France regularly sent soldiers to prop up governments and dictators close to Paris. But following criticism of France's role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide - France allegedly continued to arm and support Rwanda's Hutu-led government even after the murder of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu began - President Chirac declared that the age of unilateral action was over. The Foreign Ministry in Paris still insists that French troops will not "play an active role in any military conflict." But the French soldiers in Ivory Coast are clearly intended to do more than just...
...million people and effectively divided one of Africa's biggest countries in two. The agreement, signed in South Africa, requires Rwanda to withdraw its troops from eastern Congo within three months. In return the Congolese government in Kinshasa would disarm the Hutu responsible for the 1994 genocide of Tutsi tribespeople in Rwanda and send their leaders for trial before an international court. Skeptics questioned the deadline, and an organization representing Rwandan Hutu rebels in Congo rejected the peace deal. The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda said they would not return voluntarily to Rwanda and would resist any attempt...