The world once responded with horror when the stories were told at the end of the Nazi war, when the evidence was presented.  The world responded with a commitment to itself: "Never Again!"

Those words have long been forgotten.  The commitment has vanished.  The Nazi-like atrocities are repeated on an even larger scale in Africa and other far of places while humanity stands idly by and is many cases actively supports the atrocities with financial contributions.

Just judge for yourself the repeat of history.  Has anyone even murmured when Kabila's forces raided hospitals of Hutu children and trucked them out of town were they were destroyed?  Has anyone called for action when the forces of Laurent Kabila (the mercenary genocidalist, misnamed "rebel" leader, supported by Museveni of Uganda, a man who admires Hitler, supported by the British Empire that pays the way) shelled defenseless refugee camps in the Empire's war against Zaire?  Approximately 450,000 people had lived in the refugee camps in Zaire when the nightmare began.  Probably only a few of them were still alive a couple years later.

Those who escaped the shelling had been forced to return to Rwanda where they faced death by other means.  In an article published April 21, Nick Gordon, correspondent for the London Daily Express, gives some insight into the kind of Rwanda that a large portion of the refugees were forced to return to.  The article is based on the testimony of a RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) soldier who fled after being forced to murder Hutus.  He spoke of a campaign of systematic killing in Kigali, and in the north.  In one killing camp near Kigali, he said 6,000 people had been killed in less than a week, their were bodies burned at night, and their ashes bulldozed into the ground.  In the region of Gabiro, too, the same methods were used.  He said "Every evening, at around six, they poured paraffin onto huge piles of wood and got rid of the bodies that way.  All day there was a bulldozer spreading the ashes into the soil.  It was going on all the time for months."*(reported by The New Federalist - May 26, 1997, p.1)  EIRNS has corroborated the report with other Rwandan and American sources.

Some say that the aim of the RPF is to "even" the population so that the Tutsis, which made up 15% of the population in 1993, would be more equal in numbers.  Others say that the goal of the genocide is to prevent any future political threat by the Hutus to the Tutsi regime.  This may explain why the RPF is systematically murdering intellectuals, even to the point of killing those who have acquired high school diplomas.  Nor has the murdering ended.  According to Refugee International, on April 28, 1997, seventeen Rwandan School girls were murdered in the province of Gisenyi when they refused the soldiers' order to separate themselves into ethnic groups.  The U.N. Office for Human Rights, too, reported (on May 1, 1997) that 137 Hutus were killed in Ruhengeri, in northwest Rwanda, where, according to eyewitness accounts, RPF soldiers tied the people into pairs of two, forced them to lie on the ground, and then shot them in the head.

The only aspect that distinguishes these reports of governmental genocide in Africa, from the Nazi genocidal operations, is a difference in time, locality, and the ethnic identity of the targeted people.  The rest remains the same.

The next genocidal assignment of Police Battalion 101, operating under Hitler's dictate, was to 'cleanse' the town of Lomazy, a town of 3,000, of which more than half were Jewish.  According to testimonies, the wanton brutality in this second operation far superseded the previous one, which itself defies the power of language to render anything more than the most superficial description.  Today, the killing locality has an African name, perhaps that of a village in a country that was once called Zaire, and targets are Hutus.  Many stories of genocide come out of this part of Africa in the wake of the rise to power of Museveni's warlord, Laurent Kabila.  CBC Radio (of Canada) reported in June 1997 that a U.N. team had identified 40 sites in the former Zaire where mass killings have taken place.  The real number of killing sites may be higher than even that.

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