FOR WHOM THE BELLS TOLL

Tutsis all got screwed

In one hundred days in 1994 in the central African nation of Rwanda, the Hutu majority ethnic group at the instigation and coordination of Hutu government and civic "leaders" carried out a genocide against the Tutsi minority, hacking to death or shooting at least 800,000 people. Apparently, the killing of Tutsis was three times the rate of killing Jews during the Holocaust, according to journalist Philip Gourevitch whose book about the Rwandan genocide, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, inspired the lyrics of this song. Early on the pictures of the massacre were appearing on CNN or being described in the pages of the major print media yet the Clinton Administration not only did not take effective action, it actively thwarted UN efforts to stop the genocide. Non-governmental groups like Amnesty International also failed to act in a timely or effective manner.