"Genocide in Africa"

IN the five years before 2002, no fewer than three million people were slain in a genocidal conflict between Hutus and Tutsis. The battles raged in the triangle made up of Burundi, Rwanda and the eastern border country of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The enormity of this savagery which began with the wholesale massacre of Tutsis in Rwanda is still almost impossible to grasp. Yet despite the intervention of the United Nations and agreements between the three governments to end the massacres, the killing goes on. Most recently, 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi were massacred by Hutu thugs from the Congo. In West Africa, the carnage in Liberia and Cameroon and Sierra Leone seems to have been halted, at least for the present but the region remains chronically unstable. Diplomats remain concerned that whatever peace exists in those brutalized societies may not last.

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