Word: rwandans
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Scheffer also warned that forming and maintaining an international court would be costly. Alluding to the $118 million spent on just the two Yugoslavian and Rwandan tribunals last year, Scheffer said a world court could possibly incur the increased costs of handling several atrocities at a time...
...fear of future atrocities and the success of the ad hoc war crimes tribunals created to deal with Yugoslavian and Rwandan criminals have paved the way for a conference in Rome this summer, according to Scheffer...
...when the country convulsed in genocidal spasms that killed 1 million people, it has mostly been a land of tears. As the country's Minister of State for Education--and at 34 the youngest member of the Cabinet--Bizimana must try to salvage a ravaged and traumatized generation of Rwandan children. It is a daunting task. More than 300,000 school-age children were orphaned by the war. The school system is crumbling and underfunded, and many of its teachers either perished in the slaughter four years ago or have fled into exile. The society remains haunted by the ghosts...
...downtown Kigali, Jean-Pierre Bizimana surveys the landscape of a nation struggling to survive. The undulating countryside, full of rich volcanic soil, is rampant with disease and malnutrition. In much of rural Rwanda, fields lie fallow because there is no money for fertilizer and seeds. Ninety percent of the Rwandan population is unemployed. The average income is $180 a year, and life expectancy...
Bizimana has some scars of his own. In the old Rwandan regime, he was director of education. As a member of the majority Hutu tribe, he was expected to join in the Hutu militants' three-month campaign of genocide against Tutsi and moderate Hutu. Bizimana refused and toward the end sought refuge in a hospital. When the Tutsi-majority Rwandan Patriotic Front seized power in July 1994, he chose not to flee. Both decisions nearly cost him his life. Even today, a uniformed armed guard escorts him everywhere. Bizimana has tried to come to terms with the cataclysm, but there...