Schlagwort: Hutu

  • Naomi Byron: Burundi Killing Fields

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 10] The killing continues in Burundi. After three years of ‘low-level’ civil war in which around 150,000 have died, the country is slipping towards full-scale genocide. The latest cycle of violence began with the massacre of 350 Tutsis on 20 July at Bugendena, by Hutu militias. Less than…

  • David Cameron: East Africa in turmoil

    [Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 2-3] The crisis simmering in Zaire for two years has finally come to a head. In 1994, with the victory of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front in neighbouring Rwanda, the ex-Rwandan army and Interahamwe militias, who were responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis, fled…

  • Martin Cock: Capitalism’s lost continent

    [Militant International Review, No. 58, August 1994, p. 8-12] The Rwandan horror, argues Martin Cock, is a symptom of a wider African crisis. Within the space of a few horrific months, the image of Rwanda has changed from Gorillas in the Mist to blood-letting, massacres and tribalism. Up to 500,000 people have been killed since…