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I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

John Pomfret

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

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About John Pomfret

John Pomfret may refer to:

John Pomfret (poet) (1667–1702), English poet and clergyman
John Pomfret (journalist) (born 1959), American journalist and writer
John Edwin Pomfret (1898–1981), American academic