Tribalism

Tribalism also remains a source of death and destruction. There are two notable examples from this century

*** Rwanda (Central Africa)-1994 Over a period of 100 days, beginning April 6, 1994, up to 800,000 members of the Tutsi tribe were killed by another tribe, Hutus. Hutus used clubs and machetes to kill. As many as 10,000 were murdered each day.


*** Afghanistan-1989-present-1.2 million killed due to civil war, 2 million permanently disabled. When the last of the colonial empires, the former Soviet Union, invaded Afghanistan in 1979, most Afghans were united in their fight against this oppressor. However, with the withdrawal of the former Soviet Union from Afghanistan in 1989, things have worsened with bitter warfare amongst the country's various tribes. The Taliban group controls the capital of Kabul and
approximately two-thirds of the country including the predominantly ethnic Pashtun areas in southern Afghanistan. Opposing factions have their stronghold in the ethnically diverse north.