Word: rwanda
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...mind, Power began her excavation and reinterpretation of seven genocides in the past century: Turkey’s murders of Armenians, the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Iraq’s Kurdish extermination efforts, the Bosnian Serbs’ killings of Muslims and the Hutu massacres in Rwanda...
...taken photographs in war-torn and impoverished foreign countries including Afghanistan, Sudan, Iran Rwanda, Tibet and Siberia...
...enforce its own resolutions. The paralysis of the Soviet era has been succeeded by a tyranny of the irrelevant--with France, and its anachronistic veto, as Exhibit A. There is, of course, a fair amount of truth to this: the U.N.'s performance in Bosnia and nonperformance in Rwanda were disgraceful (although the U.S. had a hand in the latter). The French were never serious about enforcing any of the 17 Iraq-related resolutions, including 1441 (but then we were not exactly truthful, either: regime change, not disarmament, was always the real American goal). The U.N. wastes gazillions on bureaucracy...
...enforce its own resolutions. The paralysis of the Soviet era has been succeeded by a tyranny of the irrelevant - with France, and its anachronistic veto, as Exhibit A. There is, of course, a fair amount of truth to this: the U.N.'s performance in Bosnia and nonperformance in Rwanda were disgraceful (although the U.S. had a hand in the latter). The French were never serious about enforcing any of the 17 Iraq-related resolutions, including 1441 (but then we were not exactly truthful, either: regime change, not disarmament, was always the real American goal). The U.N. wastes gazillions on bureaucracy...
...almost nine years of imprisonment: water cans, pots, pans and an old pair of sports shoes. Along with other prisoners, he boarded a waiting white bus that would take him to his home for the next two months: Gashora Solidarity Camp, one of 22 camps set up in Rwanda to house more than 16,000 genocide perpetrators set free by Rwandan authorities. Most of them are self-confessed killers, released after admitting their part in the genocide. Here they will gradually be re-introduced to community life, part of a mass release designed to ease Rwanda's overcrowded prisons...