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...Africans of Sudan [July 5] and begun a virtual genocide against those defenseless people. Didn't the nations of the world say "Never again" after the Holocaust of the 1940s, the starvation of Biafrans in the '60s, the slaughter of Cambodians in the '70s and the wanton butchery in Rwanda in 1994? What does it take for the world to act? The U.N. is ineffectual, the European Union is asleep and Arab nations live in denial. If we Americans continue to allow genocide to repeat decade after decade, how long will it be before that crime arrives...
...Atrocities in Sudan are reminiscent of those in Rwanda 10 years ago. The U.S. is hesitant to step in because the Sudanese government is willing to help in the war against al-Qaeda, but does that mean we should sit back and watch as children starve to death? We spend millions to rebuild a country that despises us--and gladly murders our soldiers and beheads our citizens--but we leave other people in desperate need to fend for themselves. KERRYANN BOLTON Silver Spring...
...SENTENCED. PASTEUR BIZIMUNGU, 54, Rwanda's first President after the 1994 genocide; to 15 years in jail for diverting public funds, inciting civil disobedience and associating with criminals; in Kigali, Rwanda. Bizimungu, a member of Rwanda's majority Hutu ethnic group, came to power with the Tutsi rebels who ended the extremist Hutu-led killing of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. He quit the presidency in 2000, and was arrested after forming a political party. Defenders allege his conviction is politically motivated...
...recognizing the worth of other people,” says Honeyman.Honeyman says her passion for global conscious was also fostered by her placement in Hurlbut during her freshman year, which she says had a a disproportionately high international population. It continued with her summer travel to places like Rwanda, and later Honduras for thesis research, a thesis for which she won a Hoopes prize...
After graduation, Honeyman will again travel to Rwanda to resume her study of educational initiatives implemented in developing countries...