Word: rwanda
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...That principle-trying the makers of murderous policy, not just its executors-has become imperative since the war crimes trials in Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, and it stands at the heart of the ongoing international tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. But those special international courts can range more broadly than the Scottish one, which despite the oddity of being in the Netherlands had the fundamental task of judging a mass murder that occurred in Lockerbie. The court thus explicitly accepted testimony that al-Megrahi was a member of Libya's intelligence service but left...
...something. Working with Netaid.org an arm of the U.N. using the Internet to help those in trouble, TIME has developed opportunities to lend a hand. You can contribute by visiting Netaid.org This is not our first project. In the past two years, TIME readers have saved mothers' lives in Rwanda, found homes for orphans in Africa and helped Sierra Leonean war wounded get medical treatment. If you prefer to send a check, an address is available on the Netaid site. AOL members can go to keyword Breaking the Silence...
...More and more, people are talking about peace, but nobody's willing to pay a price," Kagame said. "In Rwanda, we saw [U.N.]forces with tanks and helicopters running from gangs with machetes...
...laud you for trying to reconstruct your country," said Masuda Bundu, a Congolese man in the audience. "But there are over two million people dead [in Congo], most of them children. That is a genocide, and a greater one than that in Rwanda. Since the Congo did not attack you, why do you have the right to do this...
...Rwanda entered the first Congo War in 1996 when the FAR and Interahamwe staged attacks over the Rwanda-Congo border. Rwanda continues to claim that the FAR and Interahamwe pose major threats to the nation's security...