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...together of relief-agency donated blue plastic sheeting, trash-can fires and hastily dug pit latrines and sought to scavenge the one thing that could sustain life in this place: hope. They were between countries. Host Tanzania didn't want them, and if they returned to Rwanda, they feared Tutsi would seek revenge for the genocide perpetrated by Hutu extremists just two years before. The landscape around the camp symbolized the prospects for the internees in it, scrubby hills that had been denuded of arboreal life, every twig and branch gathered for cooking-fire fuel. Yet Joseph still roamed...
...badly managed by both the U.S. and the U.N., Washington didn't want to get involved in another complex conflict in Africa." Of course, while the solutions were complex, the numbers were devastatingly simple: 800,000 people were killed in one month in Rwanda as Hutu mobs butchered their Tutsi neighbors...
...added that although the situation hasimproved, easing race relations is never a smoothpath. He urged the audience to think about theRwandan conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnicgroups...
CONFLICT Majority Hutu extremists tried to wipe out the Tutsi minority...
...uninitiated, Uganda seemed a safe haven amid Africa's killing fields. But the country has earned the wrath of the self-exiled Rwandan Hutu death squads for its support of Rwanda's Tutsi-dominated government. Last August the rebels kidnapped six Westerners in the same area; three remain missing...