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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (182557)2/27/2006 2:32:01 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I've known a number of people that lived through the various Tutsi/Hutu upheavals in Central Africa over the years. I used to wonder if some of it was not to be blamed on colonial boundaries. After the last go around, I for the first time read Henry Stanley's (Dover reprints) books on his exploration of Africa. This was well before European colonialism, although Arab slavers were in the regions. When I read his description of the Tutsi, I was finally cured of thinking those problems have anything to do with colonialism.

The Tutsi, although smaller in numbers, have always been warlike and dominant in power over their neighbors. Multiple generations has not changed the problem either. Things go along for several decades, then an orgy of bloodletting happens. I always hope, that this time is the last, but history says otherwise.

Sounds to me like the Iraqi Sunni and Shia.
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