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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (57428)	10/6/1999 8:00:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Unless people think (really THINK) for themselves about the implications of what they are doing these things will continue ad infinitum. If people look at their neighbors and think (with their own thoughts, and not some mindless group think) I think most people would NOT kill their neighbors. After all people don't normally kill their neighbors unless someone tells them to- SO people should just STOP listening to authority. That's what I'm doing anyway.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (57428)	10/6/1999 8:40:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 108807

but regular normal people told by radio to "kill the other tribe". Well, fwiw our Kenyan guide told us about 9 mos prior to the massacre that the surrounding countries exhibited a culture with "no respect for human life". He was talking mostly about Somalia but Rwanda was in there too. There has been so much famine, disease (aids) and violence in these countries over the last decades, people have no real fear of death. The tribalism angle is an issue because once a certain tribe gains power in the (corrupt) govt, all the scarce resources seem to get reallocated to that tribe... such that everybody else has to starve. I remember hearing about the first massacres on the radio and the journalists sounded like they were reading from a Kenyan paper I had seen at the time....