The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
The gunmen who executed the Rwandan genocide and now fight in the Democratic Republic of Congo will "always" kill Tutsis because the two sides "cannot mix" according to a field commander.
Dissensus (Free subscription) | yesterday
... from there to flag up, that should strike most as uncontroversial stuff re, specifically, the Rwandan genocide, and that get to the heart of some matters: ( although if Ed Herman is reading, maybe not.. ) Quote: Some of them are now overcompensating by pouring aid into Rwanda and also being too cautious or ashamed to lecture Kagames regime on democracy and human rights. and Quote:...
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | yesterday
In another graf of note from the NYT article announcing Obama's selection for UN ambassador, nominee Susan Rice reflects on the lessons she drew from the traumatizing experience of working in the State Department during the (ineffectual response to) the Rwandan genocide: "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Immaculée Ilibagiza grew up in Rwanda--a country divided by tribal allegiances. During the genocide in 1994, she was forced into hiding to avoid being raped,...
ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... of the FDLR in eastern Congo, who are the remnants of the genocidaires that perpetrated the Rwandan genocide in 1994. They organised and carried out the murder of 800,000 Rwandans. The Congolese army, a fractious and dysfunctional force has not been able to remove the FDLR, nor successfully tackle Nkunda’s rebels. MONUC, the UN force in the DRC, is engaged in the Congo to provide...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
His Tutsi-dominated forces say they are attacking Rwandan Hutu fighters, some of whom are accused of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
His Tutsi-dominated forces say they are attacking Rwandan Hutu fighters, some of whom are accused of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered.
Kicking Ass Ann Arbor (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... the Tutsis from the Hutu-supported government, a conflict most people know about because of the Rwandan genocide, but now in reverse. The now-termed 2008 Nord-Kivu war has uprooted 250,000 civilians and caused widespread civil unrest, large food shortages and what the United Nations called “a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic dimensions.” The militia’s aim was to take Goma, a medium-sized...
Political Ramblings (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Tim Butcher is making a ridiculous argument: Those who try to explain the current fighting in terms of tribal differences, between the Tutsi-associated Banyamulenge of eastern Congo and some Hutu-linked groups, are missing the point. Yes, the spillover from the Rwandan genocide of 1994 affected this region. But, in a state as failed as the Congo, relatively small tribal frictions can...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
FORCES AROUND GOMA CNDP: Gen Nkunda's Tutsi rebels - 6,000 fightersFDLR: Rwandan Hutus - 6-7,000Mai Mai: pro-government militia - 3,500Monuc: UN peacekeepers - 6,000 in North Kivu, including about 1,000 in Goma (17,000 nationwide)DRC army - 90,000 (nationwide)Source: UN, military expertsHis Tutsi-dominated forces say they are attacking Rwanda Hutu fighters, some of whom are accused of taking...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
His Tutsi-dominated forces say they are attacking Rwanda Hutu fighters, some of whom are accused of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered.
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Eastern Congo is aflame again – but so far all we have from the world is talk and precious little action to show for it. It’s time to change that, if we don’t want a repeat of the failures of the Rwandan genocide, ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia and previous genocides in DRC. In the last [...]
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Tim Butcher says mineral wealth is behind the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Those who try to explain the current fighting in terms of tribal differences, between the Tutsi-associated Banyamulenge of eastern Congo and some Hutu-linked groups, are missing the point. Yes, the spillover from the Rwandan genocide of 1994 affected this region. But, in a state as failed as the...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
AIDS is a serious problem for Africa. The least developed continent (obviously not counting Antarctica) on the planet has to deal with poor governance and crumbling infrastructure; add HIV/AIDS into the mix and the result is an extra 1.5 million deaths every year. That's a Rwandan genocide every eight months. That need not be the case, argues a study published in The Lancet. The study...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... violent government troops of President Joseph Kabila. For both sides, the ghosts of the 1994 Rwandan genocide loom large; Nkunda's forces are supported by the present Rwandan government, while Kabila's army is linked to Rwandan Hutu rebels who perpetrated the genocide. Fueled by ethnic power struggles, funded by the sale of the Congo's vast mineral deposits, and...
