Word: arusha
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...professor Steven Desjardins, the group will safari into the great parks of Tanzania to see animals most Americans have viewed only in captivity or as cartoons. Children have an affinity for other children, so the itinerary also includes young humans--the travelers spend a day at a school in Arusha and share a meal of porridge and vegetables with Tanzanian students...
...international community has been building a set of rules and procedures that are proving surprisingly effective. The impetus for recent reforms is the awful carnage committed in Rwanda and Bosnia. The U.N. Security Council responded by setting up special-purpose war-crimes tribunals in the Hague and Arusha, Tanzania. Last July, 160 countries sent delegates to Rome to prepare a statute for a permanent international criminal court, and 120 voted for it. The U.S. refused to go along, but nonetheless the new tribunal will come into existence when 60 countries ratify the statute...
PLEADED GUILTY. JEAN KAMBANDA, 42, former Prime Minister of Rwanda, to genocide and crimes against humanity; before a U.N. tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania. Half a million people were slaughtered during his regime in 1994. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison...
...ARUSHA, Tanzania: Half a million people died during Rwanda's 1994 genocidal ethnic struggle, and there has been little justice for the victims so far. But after more than two years, the first hearings began Thursday in Arusha at the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. First to stand before the tribunal is Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former Hutu mayor of the Rwandan village of Taba. He is charged with inciting Hutu militias in 1994 to the mass murder of Tutsis. Akayesu's lawyer is expected to seek a delay, saying he hasn't had adequate time to prepare...
...press and began negotiating to allow competing parties into the government. But many thought he was still dragging his feet. In 1990 the exiled Tutsi of the Rwandan Patriotic Front invaded from Uganda and launched a civil war that came to a halt only last August with the Arusha accords, which mandated that power be shared. Tutsi would finally be allowed into a national-unity government, and a new army of both Hutu and Tutsi soldiers would enforce the peace...