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...looked like an episode of roadside vengeance. About 30 miles southwest of the capital city of Kigali, four Tutsi, one of them a soldier of the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front, stood around a Hutu man in his 50s. He was barefoot and dressed in a torn shirt and baggy pants. A dirty strip of blue- and-white fabric roped his elbows tight behind his back. His three young accusers shouted that the Hutu was a member of a militia group that had slaughtered Tutsi and political moderates earlier this year. They had seen him beat an old woman to death...
...R.P.F. checkpoint just up the road, the soldier handed the Hutu prisoner over to one of his uniformed comrades, who shoved him behind a stand of trees. Was the man mistreated? Was he killed? That question writ large is preoccupying the whole of Rwanda. Are the Tutsi who now rule the country killing many, some, or any of the Hutu who have returned to their homes...
There are plenty of rumors, but little hard evidence. Nevertheless, fear of Tutsi revenge for 500,000 murders keeps more than 2 million Rwandan refugees huddled in disease-ridden camps along the country's borders. Some observers believe the horrifying stories are not just propaganda from defeated extremists of the Rwandan army. A U.N. relief official claims large numbers of Hutu are still fleeing from Rwanda: "They are scared of something, and it's not other Hutu." Two weeks ago, he says, U.N. aid workers driving near the border with Burundi saw about 50 bodies lying beside the road. "They...
Julie and Pascal Munyanziza and their two children, who had fled to the south, made the journey back to their tidy three-room house in a mixed Tutsi and Hutu section of Kigali. They found all the windows broken and much of the furniture gone, but the windows have been patched and the house now bears a handwritten sign: IYINZU BANYIRAYO BARAHARI (The owner is here). "If you don't mark your house," says Munyanziza, "someone will take...
...have they encountered any hostility from the Tutsi families living in the area. "The Tutsi have the same problems we do," says Rurangirwa. "No work, no money." Munyanziza wonders, though, how they will get along with the Tutsi who are now returning to the capital from years of exile in Uganda and Burundi. "We don't know them," he says, "but they have food, money, and they have taken over empty houses...