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...almost nine years of imprisonment: water cans, pots, pans and an old pair of sports shoes. Along with other prisoners, he boarded a waiting white bus that would take him to his home for the next two months: Gashora Solidarity Camp, one of 22 camps set up in Rwanda to house more than 16,000 genocide perpetrators set free by Rwandan authorities. Most of them are self-confessed killers, released after admitting their part in the genocide. Here they will gradually be re-introduced to community life, part of a mass release designed to ease Rwanda's overcrowded prisons...
...that beauty should be available to the masses, has built entire homes, pavilions and churches (some of them permanent), using little more than cardboard tubes. Many of Ban’s paper-based masterpieces have been used in disaster relief, such as U.N. refugee shelters in Turkey and Rwanda and community houses in Kobe after the 1995 earthquake. This exhibit features 16 of Ban’s projects documented through architectural and engineering drawings, images and text, as well as special installations and prototypes. See full story in Feb. 7 section. Through March 16. Hours...
...wake-up call to warn people that we're following a dangerous course by pushing identity politics and multi-culturalism," explains the Vanderbilt law school professor. "There's nothing special about the U.S. that says we couldn't have ethnic cleansing and violence here like in Bosnia or Rwanda...
...Japan’s Odawara Festival, he is also known for his humanitarian work. Ban’s lightweight, inexpensive and simple paper tube structures, dubbed “log cabins,” were used to create temporary housing in 1994 for Tutsi refugees from genocide in Rwanda and in 1995 for victims of the Kobe earthquake...
...global obligations with a check. To head off similar humiliations, the Diet?Japan's parliament?passed a law in June 1992 allowing the SDF to participate in U.N. peacekeeping operations. Since then, Japan's soldiers have crept slowly yet more confidently onto the global stage from Bosnia to Rwanda, with world events providing ample justification for the country's legislators to broaden the SDF's ambit...