Word: rwanda
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...International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda established the precedent that rape warfare is in fact a crime of genocide, in its judgment on the extermination of an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis at the hands of Rwandan Hutu militias. It was a landmark addition to the term?s legal definition, and a judgment that could be important in future International Criminal Court proceedings related to the current situation in Darfur. Many observers have recounted stories of rape being used systematically as a weapon in Sudan for the purpose of ethnic cleansing, and the International Criminal Court is expected to decide...
...cannot describe what it is like to see thousansds of bodies rotting in one place. Shot, hacked up, dead, decaying faces. People frozen in whatever position they might have fallen - babies in mothers' arms." - on her visit to Rwanda shortly after the 1994 genocide there, Washington Post, March...
Many of Africa's conflicts can be explained as tinderboxes that had long been waiting for a spark. In northern Kenya, Turkana tribes and armed gangs murder and rob each other in a cycle of violence fuelled by eight years of drought. In Rwanda, there is an increasing consensus that Africa's other recent genocide is at least partly understood as a contest between too many people on too little cultivable land. The U.N. Development Program predicted as long ago as November 1999 that one in two Africans would face water shortages by 2025, and said it expected violent flashpoints...
...likes of Congo rebel leader Laurent Nkunda before. The story of the revolutionary who storms out of the hinterland in a lightning advance and seizes power is a familiar one, from Nkunda's native Democratic Republic of Congo to the Comoros Islands. Sometimes, as with Paul Kagame in Rwanda or with Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, the new leaders are an improvement. But in other cases, as with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe or Laurent Kabila, the assassinated father of the current Congolese president, they quickly impose the autocracy and corruption they were initially fighting...
...France Rwandan Assassination Arrest A week after German police arrested her, Rose Kabuye, chief protocol officer to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was extradited to France under a warrant claiming she was complicit in the downing of a plane that killed Rwanda's then President and two French pilots. The attack helped spark the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which some 800,000 people perished. Kagame denounced the arrest, calling it "total contempt" for his nation...