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...Harvard-educated lawyers, Binaifer T. Nowrojee and Christopher J. Ayres, described personal experiences with the 1994 mass genocide in Rwanda in a speech Monday to the Harvard African Students' Association (HASA...
Both Nowrojee and Ayres have worked in Africa and are activists for human rights in Rwanda...
...UNITY You can have too much or too little. The Kurds have long been thwarted by their internal rivalries. The Kosovars are feared because they might unite with ethnic brothers in Albania and Macedonia. Physical dispersal is an even greater obstacle: How would you separate territorially Rwanda's intermingled Hutu and Tutsi...
...first thing you'll notice is Encarta Africana's upbeat tone. While it faithfully charts tragedies such as the slave trade, race riots in the U.S. and genocide in Rwanda, it never sinks into despair. An essay on Haiti, for example, informs readers not only that the country is the poorest in the Americas but also that it became the world's first black republic when it gained its independence from the French...
...similar "disruption operation" under way in Kenya a year before the bombing. The agency's station in Nairobi is one of the busiest in Africa, responsible for keeping watch as well on the war-torn countries of Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Kenya, CIA and embassy security officers believed the biggest threat to Americans was common crime. But the risk of terror lurked below the surface. Nairobi had become a transit stop for Iranian and Sudanese intelligence agents. Along the country's Indian Ocean coast were Kenyan veterans of the Afghan war that bin Laden...