Word: tutsis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GOMA, Zaire: Rwandan refugees and displaced Zairians began flocking toward home today as if the doors to their cells suddenly had been flung open, and across the world, diplomats were crossing their fingers. A Tutsi offensive had driven Hutu forces westward into Zaire, potentially forcing the Hutu militias to relinquish control of the bursting Mugunga refugee camp that has served as a barren purgatory to more than 1 million people, and as cover for thousands of militiamen hiding from their enemies. A significant exodus would greatly ease the need for the U.N. humanitarian and military intervention that has been hurriedly...
...crisis has its immediate roots in the ethnic convulsions that swept over Rwanda in 1994, when Hutu extremists butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi, hacking many of them to death with machetes. Fearing Tutsi revenge, 1.7 million Hutu then fled their homes. Those who eventually clustered in Zaire's teeming camps, however, were no ordinary refugees; they included thousands of militiamen, government officials and soldiers dodging punishment for their roles in the Tutsi genocide, which many still seemed determined to carry to its end. Since then the camps have provided these groups with a base from which to wage their...
...town at the edge of the lake--no longer called Costermansville, but Bukavu--was anything but idyllic last week. And the bodies were piling up. The streets of the Zairean provincial capital were patrolled by Tutsi rebels. Bukavu's Catholic Archbishop was ambushed and murdered. And the town's "very fine airstrip" had become a fulcrum in an undeclared war between Rwanda and Zaire, a conflict that could precipitate the dismemberment of Zaire, a country the size of Western Europe. Caught in the cross fire were more than half a million Hutu refugees who have been huddling in squalid camps...
...group of ethnic Tutsi who have been living in eastern Zaire for more than 200 years, the Banyamulenge have achieved enviable success in a number of lucrative ventures, especially mining. This has made them wealthy and enabled them to arm themselves lavishly, but it has also opened them up to scapegoating by local Zairean demagogues eager to augment their power by whipping up resentment against a people they still see as outsiders. Adding poisonously to this mix was the Hutu refugees' deep hatred for the Tutsi. The Hutu immediately began raiding the mines and goading Zairean leaders to launch pogroms...
...been shamed by incidents of priests and nuns leading massacres, the church in Burundi has spoken out against hatred, extremism and murder. For so doing, clerics have been threatened and killed in Burundi, where Christians, predominantly Catholics, form as much as 85% of the population--both Hutu and Tutsi. Ruhuna had received countless threats before, as have other prelates. Both Hutu and Tutsi blamed each other for the crime, and on Friday the military announced it had killed seven Hutu rebels it claimed were behind the murder. Ruhuna's martyrdom has not led to a cessation of violence...