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Although critics like to believe otherwise, the country is not choosing sides in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
When I joined the United Nations-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as a judicial legal advisor in 2007, I was filled with hope for justice and a safer future. We aimed to hold ...
Thirty years ago, while he was hiding from the machetes that killed his father, two of his brothers and an estimated 800,000 other people during the genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi minority, Pascal ...
Advanced reading by the teacher of the resource "Genocide" from Jill Rutter, Refugees: We Left Because We Had To (London, Refugee Council, 1996), pp. 75-77. Also see "Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region ...
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Genocide without borders: An ideology

Scholars on genocide often refer to the “path” of genocide to explain the structural stages and processes that transform social, ethnic, or religious tensions into systematic mass murder. ALSO READ: ...
Rwanda is often discussed together with Burundi and eastern DR Congo as if all three share the same history and the same problems. This regional shorthand is misleading. While these societies were ...
And I'm Steve Inskeep. This week marks the 20th anniversary of Rwanda's genocide. Leaders of the country's Hutu majority encouraged the slaughter of the ethnic Tutsi minority. People killed their ...
The murder of 500,000 Tutsi and Hutu opposition in Rwanda is genocidal murder. This event is one of many cases of genocide in the 20th century. The events in Rwanda in 1994 pose many moral questions ...