Word: tutsis
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Dallaire first arrived in Rwanda on August 19, 1993, for a 12-day fact finding mission. He returned for a longer stay in October of that year, at which point he began the difficult task of advancing a peace between the Hutu-controlled Rwandan Government Forces (RGF) and the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front...
Within months, the situation grew more worrisome. In January 1994, Dallaire received a report that Hutu extremists were preparing to exterminate large numbers of Tutsi, and he requested permission from the United Nations (U.N.) to take action...
...field. Eight people wearing sashes striped in yellow, blue and green - the national colors of Rwanda - sit behind a wooden table. There's a festive appearance to the proceedings that the words of Augustin Ntirushwamaboko belie. The 38-year-old farmer stands ramrod straight as he describes dragging a Tutsi man from the bushes in Zivu in 1994 and bludgeoning him to death. "When I hit him with the club, he didn't die," Ntirushwamaboko explains. "I had an ax. I hit him with the blunt side on his head." Ntirushwamaboko is one of up to a million Hutu...
...houses, crops and cattle, and mentioned his accomplices. These episodes roused fierce accusations, too. Murdered family members can't be replaced; cows and other chattels can. Looters are required to make restitution. As the winners of the brief civil war that followed the genocide, the current government of Tutsi President Paul Kagame set the terms of the gacaca trials. For many, this type of justice is incomplete. The gacaca courts will not consider accusations against the Rwandan Patriotic Front...
...Units from the conquering Tutsi rebel army have been accused of brutal revenge killings. The government worries that trying alleged rpf crimes alongside those of people like Ntirushwamaboko will bolster claims that the Tutsi, too, committed genocide. That troubles some outside observers. "If you give justice only to one group of people, I'm not sure that will have a reconciliatory effect," says Jean-Charles Paras, head of the Rwandan mission for Penal Reform International. "Quite the contrary, actually." Another flaw, say critics, is the reliance on confessions. In many cases, the perpetrators are the only living witnesses to their...