Word: tutsis
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...agreed to build schools and clinics, provide water and electricity service, set up farms and create jobs. BURUNDI Talks Abandoned Talks in Tanzania aimed at bringing peace to Burundi were abandoned by both the government and Hutu rebels. In the most serious fighting since a power-sharing agreement between Tutsi and Hutu began last November, the Burundi army said it had killed more than 200 Hutu rebels in two weeks. Most of the rebels were killed at Gitega, 100 km east of the capital Bujumbura, where 152 rebels died, according to a military spokesman. The army said that rebel Forces...
SENTENCED. FOUR RWANDANS, including two Catholic nuns; to prison terms of 12 to 20 years; for their roles in the 1994 Hutu extermination of the Tutsi in Rwanda; in Brussels. The nuns turned over as many as 7,000 people seeking refuge in their convent to the Hutu militia...
...then, collateral damage has even aspired to achieve an extermination. The Holocaust represented the ultimate infliction of the form. Tribes less well organized than the Germans (Serbs and Croats, Hutu and Tutsi) conduct raggedy versions of a similar ethnic malevolence...
...state radio and aired a taped statement that said, "The government that is killing people is over." But within hours the rebel troops had surrendered. Buyoya, who was in Gabon holding talks to end Burundi's civil war, returned home the next day without incident. Fighting between ethnic Tutsi and Hutu in Burundi has killed at least 200,000 people since...
...with only limited success) to suppress divisions of ethnicity and region, the government has simply created yet another fissure by supporting this new elite of Rwandans raised outside the country. This is understandable; after all, the RPF was founded because the previous regime would not allow these exiles, mostly Tutsi expelled at the time of independence, to return. Moreover, much of the old elite either perished in the genocide or had been involved in perpetrating it. Yet the tension, suspicion and mutual alienation between ordinary Rwandans and returnees is very real, putting the RPF at risk of being cast...