Sentences with phrase «rwanda genocide»

Clemantine Wamariya is an important writer who painfully, yet masterfully, exposes the atrocities of the Rwanda genocide and the effect on her and her family.

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Coexist Learning Project Coexist is a documentary film about government - mandated reconciliation following the Rwanda genocide, told from the point of view of victims, perpetrators, bystanders, social commentators, and public officials.

And the grand finale: They go to a Brooklyn courthouse and hold a mock trial of a perpetrator of the Rwanda genocide.

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In reality, only about 20 percent of Hutu men, an estimated 200,000, seriously injured or killed at least one person during the genocidal outbreak, estimates Rwanda genocide researcher Omar McDoom of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

But the extensive data from Rwanda tell a different story: An individual's willingness to take part in genocidal violence depends on many personal and social factors that influence whether and how deeply a person participates, says sociologist and Rwanda genocide researcher Hollie Nyseth Brehm of Ohio State University in Columbus.

let them come to the Niger delta and bomb, we will make sure Rwanda genocide replicate itself here, we will kill 1million abokis over night and make Dangote the poorest man.

He was also the chairman of the International Panel of Eminent Personalities investigating the circumstances of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, from 1998 to 2000.

Not exact matches

And we're now gathering testimonies from genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, Armenia and Nanking.

Paul Kagame became the president of Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, where the Hutus killed one million Tutsis.

After Ronan Farrow compared ISIS content to the radio broadcasts in Rwanda that many believe helped fuel a genocide in that country in the 1990s, sociologist Zeynep Tufekci argued that in some cases social platforms probably should remove violent content, because of the risk that distributing it will help fuel similar behavior.

In Rwanda, President Clinton would later apologize, on behalf of the U.S. and «the international community,» for not having done enough to prevent the genocide.

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.

When Gahigi returned to Rwanda after the genocide, he had nothing: no family, no home.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. tells a story about Philip Gourevich, who has written about genocide in Rwanda.

Gary Haugen has witnessed some of the most devastating human rights abuses of this generation from child slavery to the exhumation of genocide victims in Rwanda.

Case in point, Zanzibar, Cambodia, Rwanda, East Timor, Afghanistan, Tibet, Brazil, Somalia and Darfur; all place where genocide has and is taking place today.

April marks the ten - year anniversary of the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda, a catastrophic mass slaughter which claimed 850,000 lives in three months.

Certainly there were specific historical factors in Rwanda that contributed to the disastrous involvement and complicity of the churches in the 1994 genocide.

Look into hosting a showing of Invisible Children — which exposes the plight of children kidnapped and forced into war in Uganda — or As We Forgive — which documents the long road to forgiveness after the genocide in Rwanda.

And for those who planned and manned gas chambers in Auschwitz, genocide in Rwanda and «ethnic cleansing» in Bosnia, why not hell?

We focused a lot on Rwanda and its 1994 genocide.

Rwanda was considered one of the most evangelized countries in Africa up until the genocide.

The Anglican Church in Rwanda, which wishes to present itself as a conciliatory force as well — especially since many churches (itself included) failed to protect their people during the genocide — is closely allied to the government.

Gary Haugen was 30 years old, working as a prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice when he was sent on an assignment that would change his life: He went to Rwanda to investigate the genocide that had killed hundreds of thousands.

Though flung far across this tilted and spun world, studying the serving ways of Jesus — Charles brims when he gets to this part in the story — he carried in his heart the faces of the orphaned, widowed and homeless of the Rwandan genocide, and he and his wife, Florence, scrounged and squirrelled every penny to begin sponsoring vulnerable children to attend school in Rwanda.

As for Rwanda, its government and churches, I remember twenty years ago the frantic letters published in the Washington Post from Tutsi trapped in Rwanda, warning of genocide to come and begging for help.

The Declaration's 46th anniversary witnessed the genocide of nearly a million human beings in Rwanda.

This year he pled guilty to genocide before the International Tribunal for Rwanda.

Samantha Power's «A Problem from Hell»: America and the Age of Genocide, Michael Ignatieff's work on the former Yugoslavia, Philip Gourevitch's book on Rwanda, and many other powerful works are both studies of the recent history of genocide and calls toGenocide, Michael Ignatieff's work on the former Yugoslavia, Philip Gourevitch's book on Rwanda, and many other powerful works are both studies of the recent history of genocide and calls togenocide and calls to action.

I wish Hitler, Paul Pott, Bush, Blair, Idi Amin, Mugabe, those that took part in genocide in Rwanda, every abusive pastor, every kid in USA that has ever walked into a church or school and mowed down innocents were prevented from their atrocities by the fear of God.

Those who attempt to alter the constraints — like Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian commander of the UN mission in Rwanda, who tried desperately to get more troops and a mandate to stop the genocide — run into the self - interest, neutrality or caution of Western nations.

Can any reward compensate for the honors of Auschwitz or the genocide in Rwanda?

The genocide which occurred in Rwanda during 1994 was the one of worst outbreaks of violence in the 20th century.

The 1994 genocide had devastated communities in Rwanda's coffee - growing regions, leaving them struggling to rebuild.

For Rwanda's women — many of whom had been widowed by the genocide, and were left in charge of coffee farms they had never before managed — the path forward looked particularly bleak.

The international community has rightly been condemned for standing by and allowing genocide to occur in Rwanda in 1994, and in Darfur in 2003.

In the exceptional situation of Rwanda following the genocide, it turned out to be a formidable instrument of soldiers» integration in the new national army.

Rwanda after the genocide faced the difficult task of paying its soldiers.

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.

Rwanda has just completed its first Large Dam since the genocide (traditionally defined as one over 15 metres high).

He could have mentioned other genocides throughout history and the world, and pointed out that the UK's Holocaust Memorial Day, also held on Jan 27, also explicitly commemorates the subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur [3].

You're right of course, genocide has happened in several places since WWII, I just wasn't comfortable drawing a direct line from Trump's omission to making events like Rwanda or Darfur more likely.

The genocide of Rwanda, he said, would not be allowed to happen today.

After the genocide experience in 1994, Rwanda continues.

The memorial day, which seeks to maintain awareness about genocides in order to prevent more occurring, will also remember other genocides including those in Bosnia and Kosovo, Rwanda and Cambodia.

Iraq must be not allowed to become another Somalia, Oxfam urges, noting that the failed UN intervention in Somalia is widely held responsible for the international community's inability to then act to prevent the genocide in Rwanda.

Alhaji Mohammed cited an example of Rwanda, where hate speech fuelled the genocide that led to the loss of over 800,000 lives, with an unimaginable scale of destruction of property, in 1994.

They are usually repeated after every notorious act of genocide: after the Holocaust, after Halabja, after Bosnia, after Rwanda.