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Article: Remember Rwanda?
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- World Watch
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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The genocide of 1994 seemed inexplicable. But a study of links between extreme environmental degradation and the enormous violence that occurred between Hutus and Tutsis could have important implications for stressed populations in other regions.
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the presidents of two African countries was struck by a missile and crashed. Both presidents--Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi--were killed. Both were members of the Hutu ethnic group. Counting the murder of Burundi's president Melchior Ndadaye the previous October, a total of three Hutu presidents had been assassinated in ...