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...Allan A. Ryan, Jr. starts teaching his summer school course “War Crimes, Genocide and Justice,” his ideas on those topics are being implemented half-way across the globe—in Rwanda, where the country is banking on his policy suggestions to deal with the legacy of its 1994 mass genocide...
...while Ryan was also teaching a course on human rights at Boston College Law School, Rwanda invited him as one of a small group of genocide experts to help with the formidable problem of redressing the wrongs committed during the 100-day long massacre, which claimed 800,000 lives...
When he traveled to Rwanda, Ryan was deeply shaken to learn that there was “still evidence of [genocide] everywhere...
...nothing to the public discourse. The media chose not to print death photos of Princess Diana, and we were none the poorer. But there are exceptions. The Nazis? victims stacked in mounds, the Viet Cong executed with a gunshot to the head, the dead at Kent State and in Rwanda all had families and a human right to dignity. But their deaths had an unfortunate significance for the world; they were conscripted into history in a way that someone knifed in an alley is not. Yes, we would still know what happened to them even if we destroyed every picture...
Tiruneh will be a part of a group of six undergraduates who will travel to Rwanda to examine the social effects of the country’s system of courts, intended to address the cases of the 120,000 prisoners still awaiting trial on genocide charges...