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Article: Tutsis and Hutus: more blood to come. (ethnic tensions in Rwanda and Burundi)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 22, 1995
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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THE television crews have gone away, genocide has shrunk to random if beastly killings, but Rwanda and Burundi show no signs of emerging into real peace. Reconciliation is further away then ever. Hardly any progress has been made in persuading 2m refugees from Rwanda to go home, or in curbing the Tutsi hotheads of Burundi's army, which still dominates politics there. Either country or both could yet slide back into anarchy.
The Hutu-Tutsi conflict respects no frontiers; eastern Zaire and Uganda too are involved. And the demographics of the region spell trouble. It is now dominated by Tutsis and their kin. Yet these are a tiny proportion of the population. A ...
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