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Another African Apocalypse |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / WORLD VIEWS |
| Author: Michael Johns |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,214 Words, 7,404 Characters |
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Imagine if the United States, with a population of 260 million, were divided between a majority "tribe" containing 227 million and a minority "tribe" with 33 million. Because of the assassination of the president, who is from the majority, that group goes on a rampage and kills over 16 million of the minority. Then the minority, with outside help, stages a counterattack that causes over 65 million of the majority to leave the United States. Writ in large scale, this is what has happened since April in Rwanda.
How did this happen, and why? Even now, remarkably, that basic question is not easily answered. What we know is this: The conflict in Rwanda was simultaneously political and ethnic, a product of a deeply rooted and seemingly senseless rivalry between the country's two primary tr...
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... be, they do not a policy make. The more significant challenge is preventive and long term: How can America begin to plant and nourish the seeds of peace, freedom, and economic development on a continent filled with war, autocracy, and mind-boggling poverty? It is an important question that, as the bodies in Rwanda are buried and the refugees are fed and treated, urgently requires answering.
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