Tag: 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…
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Rwanda’s story
I have been reading stories in newspapers and magazines lately about the anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. I was in South Africa in early spring covering the first all-race elections in that theretofore benighted nation when I got news of the atrocities in Rwanda. Nelson Mandela had been released from decades of imprisonment and…
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Cold comfort
Transcript: “It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep. But there’ s a phone in the White House and it is ringing. something is happening in the world your vote will decide who answers that call. whether it is someone who already knows the world’s leaders, knows the military someone tested and ready to…