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LoneStarLiberal

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Thu Aug-21-03 04:09 PM
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1. It's A Tough Situation

I like Kagame and the many things he has tried to do in order to balance authoritarian order with protections for Hutu and Tutsi alike. However, sooner or later in a country with Rwanda's demographics you have to expect that Kagame, a Tutsi, should be defeated at the polls by an electorate that is overwhelmingly Hutu and would probably vote for a Hutu candidate.

I don't know that much about Twagiramungu, but I do know that the prospect of a popularly-elected Hutu leader scares the bejesus out of the Tutsis on the verge of the 10th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide.

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