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Article: A Trail of Blood Across Africa; Rwandan Hutu's Trek Leads From Genocide to Jungle, and Home Again
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- The Washington Post
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- June 27, 1997
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Christophe Kamana's homecoming was as inconspicuous as he
could make it. Last week, the 26-year-old Hutu refugee slipped off a
bus in the southwestern town of Cyangugu and trudged two days to
this verdant hamlet along Rwanda's western border with Congo. He
spoke to no one on his way home.
"I am very, very scared," Kamana said, fingering a small
wooden cross that has kept him company for the past three years.
He should be.
In April 1994, Kamana, a student, was one of thousands of
Hutu men who seized spears, machetes and axes and attacked their
Tutsi neighbors in an attempt to wipe out the Tutsis in Rwanda. An
estimated 500,000 Tutsis died in three months of mind-numbing ...