Word: rwanda
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...Volta region were underwhelmed by the idea of independence. Fearing that Ghana's bigger tribes would discriminate against them, many Voltans wanted independence to come in stages, or even the chance to secede altogether. Tribalism, which would later rear its ugly head in places such as Nigeria and Rwanda, was already shaping postcolonial Africa...
...that was apparently it. The end of history had arrived, after all, and we began spending the peace dividend and making excuses for ignoring what was happening elsewhere in the world. We were slow to act in the Balkans, we pulled out of Somalia, we stayed out of Rwanda, and we were uninterested in what was going on in Afghanistan...
...Australian has covered many of the world's hot-button conflicts since Vietnam, he hasn't always been invited, and unlike most official war artists, he hasn't confined his medium to paint and pencil. Famously, he was one of the few to witness the Kibeho massacre in Rwanda, camera in hand, and more recently Gittoes has turned to music video and anime to capture the emotions he feels. "I hate war," he says. "I'm married, have a lovely wife and two kids, and I'm someone who loves classical music, poetry and literature ... If humanity's going...
...foreign ideology but by domestic realities: poverty, corruption, unemployment. Some 40% of Filipinos live on less than $2 a day, while a tenth of the 87 million population seeks work abroad. Corruption watchdog Transparency International ranks the Philippines near the bottom of its corruption index, alongside Nepal and Rwanda. The N.P.A. promotes communism as the only cure for the Philippines' many ills, but even Filipinos who reject its cause still share its grievances...
...sectarian vengeance. Of course, the death penalty is prohibited in U.N. tribunals - a point often raised by defenders of the Iraqi courts. They argue that war criminals should face the toughest penalties allowed by their respective country's legal systems. But war criminals from the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone convicted by U.N. tribunals were spared, even though the death penalty remains on the books in both Rwanda and Sierra Leone and was legal in Serbia until 2002. Is anyone prepared to argue that those war-ravaged countries would somehow be more peaceful, stable and reconciled had they...