In Rwanda today there are millions of people who still ask why the United Nations Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), the United Nations (UN) and the international community allowed this disaster to happen. I do not have all the answers or even most of them. —Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, Shake ...
1 The issue has preoccupied my mind since the outbreak of full-scale civil war in 1994. It is my conviction that the cruelty of such conflicts as the one in Rwanda disgrace the dignity of the human kind and should be avoided in the future. But in order to achieve that ambition, we ...
He had already reported from wars all over the world when, in 1994, he was sent to cover the civil war in Rwanda. But what Fergal saw there shocked him like nothing before, as he told Mobeen Azhar, presenter of BBC World Service programme, Lives Less Ordinary. Fergal Keane ...and I...
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda, which followed the death of President Habyarimana, was one of the worst humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century. Beamed into the living rooms of the West, it shamed both African and global leaderships. As wars in the Congo continue to tear apart the regi...
Rwanda's Tragedy Plays out in War-Torn Capital since the Murder of Its President on April 6, This Tiny Central African Country Has Been Plunged into Violence, Fueled Increasingly by Ethnic Rivalries. as the Fighting Rages, Relief Agencies Do What They Can to Avert Starvation Newspaper article...
Forest Dependency and its Implications for Protected Areas Management: A Case Study From the Nyungwe Forest Reserve, Rwanda Conservation of biodiversity in protected forest areas will be more challenging if local communities are heavily dependent on them for energy, nutritional,... MK Masozera,JRR Al...
In the 1990s, rape was used as an instrument of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia and as a means of genocide in Rwanda. In the former case, women belonging to subjugated ethnic groups were intentionally impregnated through rape by enemy soldiers; in the latter case, women belonging to...
He develops a theory of transnational rebellions and civil wars and then empirically tests it against real- world cases, examining the Contra War in Nicaragua and the Rwanda insurgency following the 1994 takeover by the Rwandan Patriotic Front in depth. Rebels without borders; transnational insurgenci...
OBJECTIVES: To describe the rehabilitation of a large referral hospital amid the civil war in Rwanda, and to discuss the effectiveness of a mentor approach in re-establishing the facility's administrative structure. DESIGN: A mentor administrative design was used to re-establish the hospital personne...
Stone (2004) applies the Durkheimian approach to the explanation of the massacres in Rwanda in 1994. In this chapter I will attempt something similar, in regard to atrocities associated with the war in Sierra Leone (1991鈥 2002). But it is necessary to address an evident weakness in the ...