What exactly happened in the Rwandan genocide?
Terry: Rwanda is composed of two tribes, the majority Hutu and the minority Tutsi. Basically, the Hutu set out to exterminate the Tutsi. In the course of 100 days, more than a million people were murdered. And the U.N. and the Clinton administration refused to get involved? Terry: That’s about it. What is the source of the tribal animosity? Terry: It goes way back, but the Belgians fanned the hatred when Rwanda was their colony. They favored the Tutsi, which became the educated class and were used to control the Hutu. Is there a physiological difference between Hutu and Tutsi? Paul, you’re Hutu. Can you tell a Tutsi when you pass one on the street? Paul: There is a slight physical difference. But very slight, and it’s easy to be fooled. It’s like the difference, maybe, between a Frenchman and a German. Honestly, until the extremists started blaming all of Rwanda’s problems on the Tutsis, it was not a difference that anyone thought about. Experience has taught us to be skeptical about m
