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...peripheral western powers - have the will to settle on a deal? And do they have the will to confront the government of Rwanda, a country scarred by its 1994 genocide, which has given sympathy - and, many suspect, military support - to the rebels? The fighters claim to be protecting ethnic Tutsis from some of the same Hutu militias responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the Rwanda genocide. Both Hutu and Tutsi groups are remnants of refugee militias that fled to Congo during and after the genocidal conflicts in Rwanda. "This is a massacre such...
...stratification is such that Hawaii today is a state where not all residents can be called Hawaiian. There is no single ethnic majority in the state and only people who are descended from the original inhabitants of the islands are properly called Hawaiians. Residents of Asian, Caucasian, African or other descent are simply called locals. It is the Hawaiians, who made up 21% of the state's population in 2007 - down from 23% in 2000 - who most vocally oppose a new ConCon, concerned that it would dilute their position in the islands. "People who have achieved about as much...
...agencies and other critics call Nkunda a power-obsessed warlord whose troops have raped and terrorized civilians in a quest to control a part of Congo with rich farmland and valuable mineral deposits. Nkunda, of course, sees things differently. He professes to be a protector and liberator of ethnic Tutsis like himself, still hunted by Rwandan Hutus who crossed the border into Congo after the genocide of the mid-1990s...
...main organizer of the event. “We want to portray a side of the country you don’t see in the news.” To this end, I-Fest featured posters that explained the country’s history, Supreme Court, ethnic and religious diversity, LGBT and women’s rights, and other aspects of Israeli culture. Programming Coordinator for HSI Rachel E. Levy ’11 expressed her desire to “show that Israel is fun,” adding that this year’s I-Fest had even...
...mandate that was accepted by the government. A full-bore invasion [would have had] catastrophic results." Evans is also keen to highlight "unheralded, unacclaimed" R2P successes like in Kenya this year and in Burundi in the early years of the decad - both cases in which strong diplomatic intervention prevented ethnic clashes from descending into wider ethnic wars...