Word: rwandans
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Three weeks ago, the trial of Rwandan Colonel Theoneste Bagosora for the murder of 800,000 people in 100 days was supposed to begin in Tanzania. However, his current boycott of the proceedings has led to an adjournment of his trial until September. Bagosora will be facing the International War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda, a special U.N. tribunal set up to punish those responsible for the ethnically-motivated massacres in Rwanda in 1994. In another U.N. war crimes trial, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has taken a similar strategy of obstructionism. He delays his trial with each of his attempts...
...wrenching, dangerous work. When Emergency took over the main hospital in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, in 1994, Strada's team worked without running water, electricity or even a roof. "It helped when we had a full moon," recalls Strada. The conditions will only get worse in Afghanistan, where he would rather not be. "Emergency's ultimate goal," he says, "is to be completely useless." Sadly, that's not likely anytime soon...
Powell: Let's just say, if there was another situation that approached the Rwandan level, I think in light of what has happened in the past we'd have to take a very, very hard look at doing something. I think it would be very difficult simply to turn away...
...cure” evil ooh and aah, as if the Middle American murderer is expressing a horrifyingly original thought. But the story of humanity, from the Mongol hordes sacking Silk Road cities and piling up skulls like gumdrops, to Hutus and Tutsis hacking at each other in the Rwandan bush, has always been one of “collateral damage”—of killing people who happen to get in your...
...BELGIUM Nuns on Trial in Rwandan Genocide Four Rwandans, including two Roman Catholic nuns, went on trial in Brussels in connection with the 1994 genocide in the Central African country once administered by Belgium. They pleaded not guilty to assisting the Hutu killers. The trial is the first under a Belgian law allowing charges to be brought in the country for human rights crimes committed anywhere...