Sentences with phrase «rwanda between»

However, on closer examination, its hidden agenda is a pretence to also include Tutsi refugees (who fled Rwanda between 1959 and 1994) and to force Hutu refugees (who fled between 1994 and 1998) to return.

’27 For that reason, the RPF government has been arguing that those who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, regardless of their well - founded and reasonable fear to repatriate, «have a dark, ugly past to hide and are running away from prosecution» but not persecution.28 Whereas it can not be denied that some genocide perpetrators remain at large, it can strongly be argued that a list of Hutu refugees who were suspected of having committed genocide crimes was established and thus handed out by the RPF government to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

In South Africa, there are constant assassinations, attempted assassinations, intimidations and threats carried out by Rwandan espionage through the Rwandan embassy, based in Pretoria.6 These issues have become a source of imprisonment in fear, predicament, and deprivation, especially for Rwandan refugees who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, to whom cessation clause currently applies.

Due to covert state lobbying and overt NGO opposition, the Clause was altered to only apply to those refugees whom fled Rwanda between 1959 and 31st December 1998, and its proposed date for coming into force was pushed back to June 2013 to allow countries hosting Rwandan refugees additional time to establish alternative durable solutions [i] for refugees trying to avoid returning home.

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Conservative estimates suggest that between 20,000 and 50,000 women were raped during the 1992 - 1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and similar figures were recorded during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

There is also the sober statistic that in the Rwanda conflict between Hutus and Tutsis, 3 bishops, 96 priests, 64 sisters and 45 brothers were massacred.

Additional Information: Burundi is a small and very hilly and mountainous country between East Africa and Central Africa, and situated between Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The RPA had to stretch its organisational capacity to the limit, waging war in Congo twice between 1996 and 2001 and fighting an insurgency in the Northwest of Rwanda in 1997 - 1998.

There are significant differences between such typical past dam building and the Nyabarongo in Rwanda.

In Rwanda one tribal ethnicity engaged in genocide against another not many years ago, surely influenced by its colonial history but occurring between perceived «more - favoured» / «less favoured» peoples, in which white ethnic persons were largely neither attackers nor targets.

The Rugby Africa Bronze Cup kicks off today with a match between Ghana and Rwanda.

Armed with a $ 1.25 - million research grant from the European Research Council, the ReDirect Rwanda team calculated they could afford to pay about four «cells» surrounding the park that contain between 300 and 2,000 households each.

The second main plank in the argument is that one polio vaccine, developed by Hilary Koprowski at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, was tested on hundreds of thousands of children and adults in the countries that are now Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi between 1957 and 1959.

Refugee populations that result from these emergencies can vary from a few hundred displaced over the course of months to the 1.2 million refugees thought to have crossed the border from Rwanda into Zaire between July 14 and July 17, 1994.

«Russia just doesn't get it with infectious disease,» says Michael Rich, a physician with PIH who splits his time between Siberia and Rwanda.

For the past five years, I have taught secondary teachers and school counselors about colonialism and genocide to deepen their understanding of those themes, and to explore the connection between genocide in a faraway place (Rwanda) and othering in our schools so they can promote upstander behavior.

Clementine and her older sister Clara, born into a middle class family in Rwanda, were sucked from their family's bosom due to the vile nature of war and internecine conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis.

The unrest has never fully ended, with fighting within the country and fighting between Rwanda and Uganda over the Congo.

High commissioner of Rwanda in the UK, Yamina Karitanyi, said: «The launch of a direct route between London and Kigali is a major milestone for our country.

«Rwanda is rapidly becoming a top leisure destination for those looking to experience the adventure of a lifetime in the Heart of Africa, while business passengers can use the new service to forge stronger links between our two countries.

London Gatwick has welcomed the touchdown of the first direct flight between Rwanda and the UK with a spectacular water arch as the RwandAir aircraft taxied to the gate at the airport's North Terminal.

There's an interconnected railway network between Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, and Rwanda, making it a good option for travelling between those countries.

Subjects addressed in his work include the holocaust in Rwanda, gold mining in Brazil, toxic pollution in Nigeria, and issues related to the border between Mexico and the United States.

Only found in a tiny sliver of forest around a shared border between Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the scant 720 Mountain Gorillas left in the world live in vastly uncertain conditions.

And he draws a direct comparison — as others have — between what ISIS and other groups are doing and what happened in Rwanda in the mid-1990s, where the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis was driven in part by radio broadcasts calling for violence.