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...national team went on strike over differences with the selectors; controversial changes to the rule governing "chucking" (illegally throwing the ball as opposed to bowling it); and a look at the way the Asian diaspora is spreading the game to noncricketing countries. Cricket in Iraq, North Korea or Rwanda? You'll find it in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack...
...national team went on strike over differences with the selectors; controversial changes to the rule governing "chucking" (illegally throwing the ball as opposed to bowling it); and a look at the way the Asian diaspora is spreading the game to noncricketing countries. Cricket in Iraq, North Korea or Rwanda? You'll find it in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2005 (John Wisden...
...last night’s panel event, Romeo Dallaire, a retired Canadian general who led the ill-fated UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994, endorsed GIF’s decision to abstain from supporting weapons purchases. He said that millions of illicit small arms are already circulating in the developing world. “They are not void of weapon systems,” said Dallaire, a fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, which sponsored last night’s event. “They are void of trucks. They are void...
...mind slogging through thick mud and dense forest, a gorilla-spotting holiday in RWANDA might appeal. Now that relative political stability has returned to the country, it's once again possible to observe mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. Following in researcher Dian Fossey's footsteps, visitors can catch a rare glimpse of some of the 700 surviving primates at Parc National des Volcans, a conservation center in the northwestern part of the country. Expect your trek to be rewarded with screeches, grunts, beating of chests and close encounters with some of the most fascinating creatures on earth. The park...
...only to the bare minimum, and incriminate only accomplices who are dead or have fled the country. "I've never heard anybody confessing to more than one murder," says Gabriel Gabiro, a reporter for the Hirondelle news agency, which specializes in human-rights issues. "You'd think nobody in Rwanda killed twice." Many who confessed - including Ntirushwamaboko - were released pending trial, terrifying the families of their victims. "Some of these people still have the hearts of animals," says Dusabe Theoneste, 41, a farmer who lost much of his family during the genocide. "They haven't changed from when they were...