TUTSI GENOCIDE WAS PARTLY ANTI-CHRISTIAN <a
href="../99/09/rwanda.txt">\doc\web\99\09\rwanda.txt</a> Reverend
Peter Hammond: The Tutsi were Christians, and the Hutus are are
primarily anti-Christians; Hammond said there were three operative
anti-Christian forces: 1) voodooists/ animists 2) Marxists, who
worked up the resentment against the Tutsis, who, as a result of
their habits of clean-living, saving, investment, and so on, built up
more material and financial success than the Hutus and 3) Islamists.




Date sent:      	Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:33:21 -0500
To:             	JimmyKilpatrick@EducationNews.org
From:           	JSOOD@aol.com (by way of JimmyKilpatrick <JimmyKilpatrick@EducationNews.org>)
Subject:        	Non-ed: African missionary on Tutsi slaughter, U.N. 


Dear Jimmy,


If you think this is not too far afield from education and would be of
interest, could you please send to the Loop? Thanks,   Susan O.




This evening a local talk show host (Barbara Simpson of KSFO radio in San
Francisco) interviewed Reverend Peter Hammond, over the phone from
Capetown, South Africa. 


Rev. Hammond has been a missionary for 18 years. He spoke of seeing
thousands of bodies and/or skeletons of Tutsi victims of Hutu murderers in
Rwanda. Hammond said that people from the UN stood by and allowed the
slaughter by machetes to occur, and at times handed over Tutsis to the
secret police. (Individual Tutsis were identified and marked for murder.)
The U.N. disarmed the Tutsi population in advance of the genocide. Spears,
knives, and machetes, as well as all guns, were confiscated. Hammond said
that all genocides have been preceded by disarmaments. 


The Tutsi were Christians, and the Hutus are are primarily
anti-Christians; Hammond said there were three operative anti-Christian
forces:  1) voodooists/ animists   2) Marxists, who worked up the
resentment against the Tutsis, who, as a result of their habits of
clean-living, saving, investment, and so on, built up more material and
financial success than the Hutus and 3) Islamists.


The Tutsis were primarily killed in churches, schools, and hospitals, the
places to which they fled for sanctuary. 


Rev. Hammond said he has watched U.N. personnel over the years and noted
that, while many of the lower- or middle-level people were well-meaning
"bleeding hearts", "absolutely" the upper echelons of the U.N. people were
anti-Christian. He said so "without doubt, having been a missionary for 18
years." 


He said that in Angola and Sudan, the U.N. were selective about who
received aid. He said persecution of Christians has been particularly bad
over many years in Sudan. 


Rev. Hammond will be interviewed again on Barbara Simpson's show on KSFO
(560 am) on Sunday, July 4, between 4 and 7 p.m., for those in the
broadcast area; and the show can be picked up on the internet. 


Rev. Hammond has written many books--"Holocaust in Rwanda" is a recent
one--and also has made video documentaries. A contact phone number is
1-888-918-4100. 


Susan O.













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