These "ethnic" rivalries had been going on for a long time and massacres were known to occur... But the scale and intensity changes with the acquisition of modern weapons, motives, and outside interests. One of the flareups in the 1990s was multiple attacks on the shortwave relay stations (RFI, I believe.) that dot Rwanda to provide the African continent with radio broadcasts.
The Hatfield-McCoy feud would have been very different if one side had been armed with gatling guns and covert support from the U.S. and the other side armed with weapons from...
~~~~~~~~~ Leigh I must get back to my spaceship now, it's double-parked.
----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Doss To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Rwanda - Whose Genocide?
Oh yes the US is behind everything. Nobody is capable of killing anybody else without the US asking them to do it. If not for the US, then Hutus and Tutsis would have marched hand in hand toward a glorious future of ethnic harmony and togetherness. In fact, all ethnic slaughter throughout history has been caused by the United States. The CIA has a secret department of Temporal Interventions that it uses to send agents back in time so as to ensure US supremacy in the present. Indeed, Hitler was actually born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1972.
Ever wonder why the Solar System outside Earth is lifeless? CIA-sponsored Venusian-Martian-Jovian ethnic war, clearly. ==============================