Word: rwanda
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...crowded beach? Audacious travelers can now explore rougher, wilder destinations as tour operators cater to an increasingly adventurous clientele. Here are three trips guaranteed to satisfy even the most jaded thrill-seeker. If you don't mind slogging through thick mud and dense forest, a gorilla-spotting holiday in Rwanda might appeal. Now that relative political stability has returned to the country, it's once again possible to observe mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. Following in researcher Dian Fossey's footsteps, visitors can catch a rare glimpse of some of the 700 surviving primates at Parc National des Volcans...
...village of Zivu, nearly everybody has turned out. Several hundred men and women, some carrying babies or minding children, many shading themselves under brightly colored umbrellas, are ranged across a grassy field. Eight people wearing sashes striped in yellow, blue and green - the national colors of Rwanda - sit behind a wooden table. There's a festive appearance to the proceedings that the words of Augustin Ntirushwamaboko belie. The 38-year-old farmer stands ramrod straight as he describes dragging a Tutsi man from the bushes in Zivu in 1994 and bludgeoning him to death. "When I hit him with...
...said never again [after the Holocaust and Rwanda],” said Collins, “and yet genocide is still occurring...
...justify inaction now. We now have the opportunity in this specific moment to put into action the theories we have scrutinized for the past four years, to actively realize our humanitarian responsibility. We acknowledge that with every action comes a risk. We must learn from the lessons of Rwanda. We know the severity of the situation in Sudan, and we know what the outcome will be if we fail...
...with Nelson Mandela, Mhlaba was one of four members of the prison's "High Organ," which negotiated with the apartheid government for better conditions and the release of political prisoners. Freed in 1989, he went on to serve as a regional official and as High Commissioner to Uganda and Rwanda. Upon Mhlaba's death, Mandela called him "one of the real stalwarts of our movement, a person who in his life and work embodied the highest values our struggle stood for and strove towards...