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An Ordinary ManIt was easy to get them to follow any orders imaginable. The groundwork for the genocide went even deeper. In the fall of 1992 mayors in each of RwandaБЂ™s hundred little communes were asked by the presidentБЂ™s political party to compile lists of people-understood to be Tutsis and people who were threatening to Habyarimana-who had left the country recently or who had children who had left. The implication was that these people had joined the ranks of the RPF. These lists could then be used to identify БЂњsecurity threatsБЂ«in times of emergency. Tutsis throughout the country suspected their names were being entered into secret ledgers. Many tried without success to have their identity cards relabeled so that they would appear to be Hutu. I used to be in the habit of stopping off at a bar near my home after work and buying a round for some of my friends from the old Gitwe days. One afternoon when I wasnБЂ™t there, a man wearing the uniform of a soldier tossed a grenade in the door and sped off on a motorcycle ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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