[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Not to support the Times nor Clinton, but during the Reagan years the Tutsi and Hutus were killing each other at a pretty good clip and I never saw any mention of it in US papers though the Brits and South Africans printed a good bit about it.

The Tutsi are a small minority (with most of the guns) controlling the Hutus majority. The only way the problem will even be noticed here is if someone starts claiming the Tutsi are really white!

[Pharmboy]

HC--the tree might have fallen in the forest, but no one heard it here in the 80s if it was not reported. And, though I believe you since you sound like you know what you're talking about, it evidently was nowhere near the enormity of what happened in 94.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

I may have my countries wrong, I just looked in an old file and found a South African Star story about 24,000 Hutus killed by a thousand Tutsi soldiers in August of 1988 in Burundi.

Same tribes, neighboring countries.

[VA40]

Am I mistaken or were the one's who were slaughtered the Christians? And correct me here also, but weren't we on the "side" opposite the Christians in Bosnia? (I can never get this straight).