Rwanda’s Butchers: the Interahamwe and Former Rwandan Army
Military history will record the Interahamwe and allied Rwandan soldiers uniquely. Back in April 1994, they achieved a dramatic tactical success, while failing…
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Central African Conflict: Rwanda and Burundi Sink into Abyss of a Long War
/in Fort Worth Star-Telegram/by Frank SmythNYAMIAGABE, Rwanda – Recent killings by Hutu rebels in Rwanda and Burundi, and retaliatory attacks by the Tutsi-dominated army in each country indicate that the…
Many Tutsis Are Strangers in Their Own Homeland
/in Fort Worth Star-Telegram/by Frank SmythMost of Rwanda’s new Tutsis hardly know the country they call their homeland. After Hutus first seized power in Rwanda during the early 1960s amid the region’s transition to independence (in Burundi, the Tutsis never lost power), more than 150,000 Tutsis fled to Uganda and other countries. There they eventually grew to more than 1 million.
Grim Testimony from the Dead of Two Years Ago
/in Fort Worth Star-Telegram/by Frank SmythNYAMIAGABE, Rwanda – Sights, sounds and even the smell of violence frequently remain etched in memory long after they have occurred. The stench of rotting cadavers will stay with you a good while after you’ve…
Tutsis, Hutus Oppose Increased International Presence
/in Fort Worth Star-Telegram/by Frank SmythNyamiagbe, Rwanda — How to curb the violence in Rwanda and Burundi is the question facing the United Nations Security Council and others. No one has offered a viable plan. The two countries have been fighting civil wars since the early 1990s but have been involved in internecine warfare for centuries. For Burundi, the Security […]
The Nun Who Knew Too Much: Dianna Ortiz Links This North American Man to Her Rape and Torture in Guatemala
/in The Washington Post/by Frank SmythThey met on the set of NBC’s “Today” show. Jeanne Boylan, the forensic artist who drew the Unabomber…
My Spy Story
/in The New York Times/by Frank SmythAfter several days in a prison near Baghdad in 1991, I was told “they” wanted to see me. Blindfolded, I was led into a room where, judging from the voices, there were at least half a dozen men. For days, I had heard and sometimes watched as guards beat and tortured Iraqi prisoners. The translator asked what my “real job”…