Schlagwort: Hutu
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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…
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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…