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...1990s. Do all those parties with a stake in the Congo conflict - from the government, to the rebels, to the U.N. and a host of peripheral western powers - have the will to settle on a deal? And do they have the will to confront the government of Rwanda, a country scarred by its 1994 genocide, which has given sympathy - and, many suspect, military support - to the rebels? The fighters claim to be protecting ethnic Tutsis from some of the same Hutu militias responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the Rwanda genocide. Both Hutu...
Whether the diplomats agree with that sentiment is unclear. The foreign ministers of Britain, Belgium and France all headed to DRC and planned to meet with the president, Joseph Kabila. They were then to travel to Rwanda for meetings with President Paul Kagame. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Jendayi Frazer passed through Goma on Friday before visiting Rwanda. On Friday, Kabila and Kagame agreed to attend a summit to try to resolve the issue. They have made similar promises before, but achieved little. And while experts say that efforts are underway, there are still no plans...
...solution will have to include Rwanda - as evidenced by the import of the planned meeting between Kagame and Kablia. Human rights groups have accused Congolese forces of colluding with ethnic Hutu militias thata fled neighboring Rwanda to escape justice for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The Congolese government has repeatedly promised to disarm the militias, to little effect. On the other side, Kagame, an ethnic Tutsi, has ties to the eastern Congolese rebels. That group says it is fighting to protect ethnic Tutsis in Congo who have been persecuted by both the Congolese government and the Hutu militias...
...also interviews a New York artist, Alfredo Jaar, who believes that only images of pain can still affect today’s viewer. In “The Eyes of Gutete Emerita,” Jaar forces viewers of his work to confront images of the genocide in Rwanda directly by placing one million slides on a lightbox. Tan’s most recent projects take the combination of image and identity one step further. In her 2005 work “Corrections,” she amassed 300 video portraits of prison inmates and workers, while...
...them,” Marks said. “So history has not had time to judge. Day two of the conference will highlight the relationship between the conduct of these wars and the postcolonial landscape. Four more panels today will present on conflicts in Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Algeria, Rwanda and the Congo...