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  • The Rwandan Patriotic Front was no slouch when it came to effacing Hutus from the scene, torturing captives and raping and murdering their way across Rwanda as they marched to power in 1994 under Kagame’s Generalship.

    Kagame To Be Sole 'Star Turn' at Conservative Conference 2007

  • The Rwandan Patriotic Front was no slouch when it came to effacing Hutus from the scene, torturing captives and raping and murdering their way across Rwanda as they marched to power in 1994 under Kagame’s Generalship.

    Archive 2007-08-26 2007

  • The Hutus were the oppressed, and rose up against the Tutsis after generations of oppression and killings.

    Not My Tribe 2008

  • Judging from the ready resort of modern groups such as Hutus to genocide, and its ubiquitous depiction and tacit advocacy in ancient quasi-historical texts such as the Bible and Iliad, I dismally speculate that wholesale extermination's the default means for humans groups to rid themselves of competitors.

    If Spike Lee had directed Avatar..? Steven Barnes 2009

  • Hundreds of thousands of Hutus fled the camps "like walking corpses" into the jungles and were hunted down.

    The Triumph of Fear Douglas Rogers 2011

  • By 1996, as Mr. Stearns tells it, the Tutsi-led rebel movement that had overthrown the Hutu regime was firmly ­established in power and had turned its attention on the Rwandan Hutus settled in sprawling refugee camps in the eastern Congo.

    The Triumph of Fear Douglas Rogers 2011

  • In 1994, in no more than a 100 days, close to a million Rwandans -- mainly Tutsis and moderate Hutus -- perished.

    Sam Sasan Shoamanesh: Nyiramasuhuko: The Mother Who Awarded Rape for Murder Sam Sasan Shoamanesh 2011

  • Can you love the 800,000 Rwandans who were savagely cut up by machetes in Rwanda without hating the Hutus who just a few hours earlier were their friends and neighbors?

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Christian Love and the Obligation to Hate Evil Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • The laws were put in place after Rwanda's 1994 genocide, when extremist Hutus killed an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

    Amnesty Urges Rwanda Ease Restrictions on Freedom of Expression 2011

  • There was old-fashioned trench warfare on the rolling savannas of Katanga province, where the Belgians once had sprawling cattle ranches: Rwandans and Burundians battling Hutus and Zimbabweans, hundreds of miles from their home countries.

    The Triumph of Fear Douglas Rogers 2011

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