Word: tutsis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peacekeeping force already in Rwanda to police an agreement last August for power sharing with Tutsi rebels in the Hutu-led government was hastily reduced from 2,600 to 470 when the massacres began and 10 Belgian blue helmets were killed. The signal sent, says a senior African diplomat, "was, Look, you are on your own. You may do whatever you want...
...sunniest version of South Africa's destiny, the country, being the strongest economy in Africa, will begin to lead the continent into the 21st century. But everyone's mind entertained a dark, simultaneous vision of disintegration: of economic disaster and tribal war. Images of Rwanda's Tutsi and Hutu hacking one another to death in inconceivable numbers stayed on the retina, a kind of warning. Africa, after all, has a talent for apocalypses -- droughts and famines, annihilating plagues and slaughters. Still, even the occasional apocalypse is not necessarily a continent's final destiny. Europe's history too has been...
...Western troops could barely manage to protect their own countrymen. A 2,400-member U.N. peacekeeping force, in Kigali to monitor a peace accord signed last year, lost 10 of its Belgian members when they tried to save the life of the Tutsi Prime Minister. Some 12,000 people were under U.N. protection at the national stadium and at the city's main hospital. But U.N. officials were worried that the lightly armed peacekeepers would not have the resources to cope. Chastened by the experience of Somalia, the U.N. Security Council is unwilling to intervene with force...
...Tutsi rebels have promised not to retaliate against the Hutus and have pledged to end the slaughter. But the refugees know just how many times that promise has been made over the years by both tribes -- and then broken...
...Rwandan capital of Kigali was ravaged by continued ethnic violence between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes as bands of marauders armed with guns and machetes roamed the streets in search of victims. The numbers of dead were estimated to reach into the tens of thousands by week's end, with Belgian troops scrambling to evacuate the last foreigners from the city. Despite tentative talks with government forces that began Friday, rebel troops warned that any non- nationals remaining in the city after 24 hours would be considered hostile...