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The war is between the country's two main tribes--the Hutus and the Tutsis . In 1994, when Rwanda's Tutsi minority seized power, 1.5 million Hutu refugees fled across the border to Zaire.
The NYT depicts the U.N. report as striking in its institutional candor: Although commissioned by the current Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, the report criticizes him and his predecessor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, for failing to take decisive action as the peacekeeping troops on the ground in Rwanda reported back about the Hutu militia's plans for ethnic attacks against Tutsis and about their accumulating weapons caches towards that end.
Also, a creepy explanation for the Rwanda genocide: "Judgment Day" asserts that Rwandans are incredibly law-abiding, so when the government ordered them to kill Tutsis, they obeyed without a second thought.
Gould and I are convinced of each other's confusion, and the Hutus and Tutsis, long before the slaughter began, were convinced of each other's treachery.
These refugees included members of the Hutu militias that had led the murder of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis.