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...cartographers race to redraw the map of the Indian Ocean basin after last month’s tsunami, they might also have to account for new changes in Iraq. No, Iraq is not yet an autonomous democracy, nor has it been carved up along ethnic and sectarian lines. Neither has Iraq joined the Union as the 51st state...
...epicenter of last week's disaster was in the Indian Ocean, the devastating toll was felt worldwide. European tourists apparently numbering in the thousands were drowned alongside the tens of thousands of victims who lived on the coasts of East Asia, South Asia and Africa. A world divided by ethnic and religious disputes suddenly faced its common humanity--and common mortality--in a disaster of shocking geographic reach. At least for the moment, the world has united to aid millions of vulnerable people trying to piece their lives back together in the wake of the devastation...
Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. The genocide, of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu majority, was the culmination of long-simmering tensions between two ethnic groups whose differences were exacerbated by Belgian colonists in the early twentieth century. Following the assassination of a Hutu president, the Tutsi became the targets of a reactionary attempt at organized ethnic cleansing...
Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. The genocide, of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu majority, was the culmination of long-simmering tensions between two ethnic groups whose differences were exacerbated by Belgian colonists in the early twentieth century. Following the assassination of a Hutu president, the Tutsi became the targets of a reactionary attempt at organized ethnic cleansing...
...First, at the time of the Rwandan conflict, then-UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali described the situation as “Hutus killing Tutsis and Tutsis killing Hutus.” Dallaire calls this “the myth of the double genocide.” Indeed, the ethnic Tutsi rebels who liberated Kigali at the end of the civil war certainly did commit reprehensible atrocities. But Rwanda—like Darfur—was a one-sided slaughter...