Word: tutsis
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...Saharan Africa--Rwanda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya. Akpan's method is to present scenes of extreme violence and degradation from a child's point of view. A young boy watches his sister practice prostitution; a man sells his niece and nephew into slavery; a girl looks on as her Tutsi father kills her Hutu mother with a machete. And so on. These stories are so frightening and upsetting, and offer so little in the way of closure or consolation, that you wonder what the point is of subjecting yourself to them--they exist at the border between realism and snuff. There...
...been outbreaks of violence between Kenya's 42 tribes, including in 1992 when 2,000 people were killed. But the ferocity of the anger directed solely at Kikuyu is new, and the church killing in particular has ominous echoes of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when moderate Hutu and Tutsi were also massacred in churches where they had gathered in the thousands to seek safety. "Maybe in Burundi or Rwanda," commented one U.N. official. "But I never thought this could happen in Kenya...
Analysts and U.N. officials saw echoes of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, when churches were turned into slaughterhouses for some of the 800,000 moderate Hutu and Tutsi victims. "Maybe in Burundi or Rwanda, but I never thought this could happen in Kenya," one U.N. official said...
...correct that the genocide happened as a result of overpopulation. The seeds of genocide were planted here six or seven decades ago, when the country was not overpopulated. For example in 1932, when the Belgians introduced the identity card, to make a difference between a Hutu and Tutsi...
...still cannot speak about. We have to do research into it, we have to look into ourselves and work out why it happened in Rwanda. People were killing members of their own family. Fathers were killing their own children because some of them resembled their wife, who was a Tutsi. How do you explain that...