Sympathy for the Hutus (Brian Cooper)

I read many signs that suggest that 1959-1994 in Rwanda was a brief window of opportunity for the majority Hutus to secure equal status in Rwanda-- in a history of Tutsi rule spanning several centuries and two countries (Rwanda and Birundi). As I see it, the Hutu leaders gripped power too tightly, too selfishly, and manipulated the populance into performing those deeds that encouraged the world to think of them (Hutus in general) as brutish and thus eligible for control by others. The massacres were so horrific that it's impossible to talk about this while remaining sensitive to the many many individuals who suffered and are still suffering. But I can't stop worrying that any Hutu man or woman, for generations, will be hampered by the thought that "It was your people who committed the genocide."