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When Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down by a rocket last Wednesday, previously moderate fighting between the powerful Tutsi minority and the president's Hutu loyalists escalated to tragic proportions. As in Bosnia and Croatia, race has become the only criterion for murder. Hundred of thousands of people--Hutus and Tutsis--are fleeing Kigali, but they have nowhere to go. Espcaping the fighting gives them a chance at life, but starvation is already claiming thousands in the barren lands around the city...
...openly) founded to protect the social and economic interests of the West. The plight of the Rwandans should have gravity equal to that of the splintered races in what was Yugoslavia. Who can say that a Croat is worth more than a Tutsi? Who can say that a U.N. "peacekeeper" from France is worth more than a Hutu? Plenty of French people certainly can, but that doesn't mean that they're right...
...small Central African nations of Rwanda and Burundi, where politics is still dominated by the ancient rivalry between the predominant Hutu and minority Tutsi tribes, pure tribal enmity was behind the bloodshed. Last week's violence exploded after a plane carrying Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, both Hutus, crashed Wednesday night on the approach to Kigali airport, killing both leaders. Witnesses reported hearing heavy weapons fire moments before the plane went down. "What happened was not an accident but an assassination," said Jean Damascene Bizimana, Rwanda's ambassador to the U.N. The two leaders were...
After three years of fighting, Habyarimana's regime in Rwanda, made up largely of fellow Hutus, had reached a peace accord with the mainly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front last August. But Habyarimana failed to form an interim government to last until new elections could be conducted. Burundi's Ntaryamira had been elected President in January by the National Assembly after the assassination of fellow Hutu Melchior Ndadaye in a bloody coup attempt last October. With Burundi's army still under the control of the Tutsis, however, Ntaryamira had been unable to stop the rash of ethnic clashes that have killed...
Avenging the killing of 200 members of the Hutu ethnic group by their longtime enemies in a raid in the Burundi capital, Hutus murdered dozens of Tutsis. Nearly 100,000 people were killed in rioting last October when the country's first Hutu leader was killed by the Tutsi-dominated military...