Word: rwanda
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...Hutu slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda between April and July 1994 was so quick and wholesale, it has proved impossible to find all the dead or separate their remains. It is estimated that Rwanda lost 800,000 people in 100 days. Perhaps 2 million took part in the slaughter, this in a country of 8 million. The genocide museum in the capital Kigali concludes its description of 1994 with the words: "Rwanda was dead." As a Tutsi area, Nyamata was a crucible of the killing. It was where, in a series of practice massacres after 1990, that...
...Botswana, and four more mobile clinics to reach remote areas. More than 7,000 health workers have been trained in treating HIV/AIDS. Of the estimated 110,000 people who need treatment in Botswana, 82,000 receive it - a proportion higher than any other country in sub-Saharan Africa except Rwanda. Mother-to - fetus transmission of HIV/AIDS has dropped from 2 in 5 to 1 in 16. Transmission rates among young people have also dropped 20%. And the overall HIV/AIDS infection rate has declined: among 15- to 49-year-olds, it fell from 37.4% to 32.4% between...
...change. (The Darfur conflict has its roots in the expansion south of the Sahara desert, which has pitched Arab nomads in competition with African-Arab pastoralists for ever decreasing fertile land.) Until it is fixed, however, Darfur will haunt the international community. Sometimes the U.N. isn't enough, as Rwanda demonstrated 13 years ago. The question is: What...
...death toll declined, the Iraqi one would almost surely soar. Just how many Iraqis would die if the U.S. withdrew is anyone's guess, but almost everyone who has studied it believes the current rate of more than a thousand a month would spike dramatically. It might not resemble Rwanda, where more than half a million people were slaughtered in six months in 1994. But Iraq could bleed like the former Yugoslavia did from 1992 to 1995, when 250,000 perished...
...moving to shield the LRA from the international court. It recently announced that it will set up a special tribunal to handle internally the war crimes of the LRA. Uganda's Foreign Affairs Minister Oryem Okello says that the tribunal will be comparable to that used in neighboring Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. (To complicate matters, Uganda's displaced have also accused government soldiers of atrocities during their time in the camps. But Uganda's proposed national tribunal will not handle cases of abuse by the army. Instead, the soldiers will be tried by preexisting courts-martial...