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Article: Neither Hutu nor Tutsi, just Rwandan.(democratic ideals in Rwanda)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 3, 1999
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TABA
Rwanda is holding its first election since the genocide five years ago. But the government dares not allow much democracy
TABA, a small country town in Rwanda, was the scene of unspeakable atrocities in 1994. The Interahamwe, or Hutu militiamen, killed hundreds of Tutsi civilians; dozens of women were raped in the government offices there. Taba's mayor at the time, Jean-Paul Akayesu, later became the first person to be convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda, receiving a life sentence. But on March 29th, the people of Taba, like others across Rwanda, went to vote.
These were very much local elections, in which ...