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...Hutu militiamen descended through the steep pastureland to the Trappist monastery early one Sunday in May. Their quarry were Tutsi, 800 of whom had fled their nearby homes in the Masisi highlands of eastern Zaire to take refuge in a brick church on the monastery grounds. As in Rwanda two years ago, the Hutu had a plan, recalls French Brother Victor Bordeau, 60, who had been hearing rumors of an attack for days: "First they would kill the Tutsi brothers, then attack the Tutsi refugees. Then drive the rest out of Zaire...
After the first dozen men converged on the compound, drums echoed from the surrounding hilltops, summoning 300 more combatants from nearby villages. While one group negotiated with Bordeau, another, armed with clubs, machetes and AK-47s, stormed into the church. Tutsi, women and children among them, fled through a rear door and into the surrounding papyrus brush. They were hunted down. Hutu severed a woman's hands and feet. They cut out a man' s heart, leaving a huge gash in his chest. Bordeau was handed a baby, still breathing but drenched in his mother's blood...
Finally, the remaining monks managed to escape in a Land Rover. "They were just waiting for us to leave," recalls Bordeau. In the end, between 100 and 150 Tutsi men, women and children were slaughtered at the Mokoto monastery. "The genocidal mentality of Rwanda is spreading here," Bordeau lamented after reaching the nearby town of Goma. "It is a contagion...
...murdered by authorities and vigilantes when their numbers grow too large; the child sex workers of Thailand and Indonesia, who die slow and painful deaths when they are infected with aids or addicted to drugs; the uncounted thousands of children of Rwanda, hacked to pieces for being Hutu or Tutsi. These children were murdered by monsters every bit as scary as the psychotic who killed the Dunblane children. But because there are no smiling school portraits of them to tug at our heartstrings, because they die in places far from Western attention, they die unmourned and unnoticed. KRISTEN MCDERMOTT Norcross...
...committee of the Harvard Alumni association that brought this proposal to the Harvard Corporation for adoption exhibited a grievous lapse in its humanistic awareness. it failed to understand that the humanity of black folks--and by extension of other systemically ravaged modern peoples such as Tutsi folks, Jewish folks, Armenian folks, etc.--should not be trifled with. --Martin Kilson Thomson Professor of Government