Category: Special Report on Rwanda
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INGREDIENTS FOR GENOCIDE: Burundi seems headed for same fate as Rwanda
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer BUJUMBURA, Burundi–The driver’s father was a Hutu, but his mother was a Tutsi, and that ethnic mix is a recipe for murder in this country–where all the ingredients of a Rwandan-like bloodbath are beginning to boil. Afraid he was a marked man, Selemani Hakizimana drove fast and…
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AFRICAN EPILOGUE: Dreams of Death
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN Amidst lesser mountains, Kilimanjaro sat mysteriously in the distance, its brooding, mammoth expanse shrouded by clouds that streaked the rising sun. It was barely dawn at this wildlife reserve, and the elephants were headed out to the swamps. I must confess that the burden I had carried in my heart to…