Word: tutsis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...building, 400 more bodies are piled on one another, the rooms thick with the stench of rotting flesh. One woman and her baby tried to hide in a small pit toilet; they were discovered and hacked to death. "How can I come back here?" exclaims Consolata Mukatwagirimana, a young Tutsi woman of 27 who escaped the massacre six weeks ago that may have left 1,500 dead here and in the surrounding hills. "My family is gone; our neighbors are dead; there is nothing left...
...fighting broke out in early April. Said a government spokesman last week: "At the moment, we have no willingness to have contact with the so- called government in Kigali, which consists of a gang of murderers." Neither French troops nor French-equipped African troops are acceptable to the mainly Tutsi Rwanda Patriotic Front: France helped arm and train their opponents, the Hutu forces of the late President Juvenal Habyarimana...
...Tutsi rebels continued their advance on the Rwandan capital of Kigali, shelling positions held by the Hutu-dominated Rwandan army. The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a plan that would impose an arms embargo on both sides and send an all-African force to intervene...
...hunt; one man butchering another with his own hands." Distinctions between soldiers and civilians become harder to make and less respected. There are no rules of engagement and no one reliable with whom to negotiate. The Hutu army chief of staff guaranteed safe passage to U.N. soldiers evacuating wounded Tutsi civilians. But soldiers along the road stopped the convoy, ordered people out and set upon them with machetes. "They said they didn't take orders from the army chief of staff," said U.N. spokesman Abdul Kabia...
...modern military model is the neighborhood gang, brothers and cousins, roaming, rule breaking, terrorizing. "Youth has no future in Rwanda," observes Jean-Claude Willame, professor of African politics at Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain. "To a certain extent, they don't give a damn about those Hutu and Tutsi things. They're paid...