Resources: Database Rwandan genocide
On a trip to Rwanda in March 1998, President Bill Clinton issued what has come to be known as the "Clinton apology." Speaking on the Kigali Airport tarmac, he (in)famously stated: "We come here today partly in recognition of the fact that we in the United States and the world community did not do as much as we could have and should have done to try to limit what occurred [in Rwanda].” He then added in true Clintonesque style: It may seem strange to you here, especially the many of you who lost members of your family, but all over »
In this essay, Poet Alice Walker writes of encountering "the horror" (as in Joseph Conrad's novel, 'The Heart of Darkness') in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel and finding her voice again after a period of speechlessness. Part of what has happened to human beings, she believes, is that we have, over the last century, witnessed cruel and unusually barbaric behavior that was so horrifying it literally left us speechless. We had no words to describe it even when we viewed it; nor could we easily believe human beings could fall to such levels of degradation; we have been deeply frightened. »
A WOMAN STANDS AT THE OPENiNG of a descending staircase. Her eyes—her red-streaked eyes—see inside me as she puts her arm through mine. We kiss each other on either side of our cheeks, one-two-three, Rwandan style. Her eyes. She directs me down to the basement, where there is a pyramid-shaped glass case of bones rising from a floor of white square tiles. The bones—skulls, femurs, ribs, vertebrae—are organized in rows, columns, piles. You can look through the glass floor of the bone pyramid to another floor below where a single coffin rests. We are told that inside is the body »
STEPHEN KINZER France's role in the Rwandan genocide By Stephen Kinzer | August 14, 2008 IS THE defendant's dock at the International Criminal Court reserved for leaders of small and poor countries that defy the West? Not if Rwanda has its way. It wants to charge some of France's most celebrated leaders of the 1990s as collaborators in genocide. Last week the government of Rwanda issued a damning 500-page report documenting France's participation in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This marks a remarkable turnaround in the deeply politicized world of human rights reporting. Usually, such reporting takes the form of governments »
The long overdue sight of Radovan Karadzic in The Hague facing trial for genocide is a useful reminder of wars past. In 1995, after three and a half years of killing, an American-led NATO bombing campaign helped stop Karadzic’s atrocities and turned the Bosnian Serb leader into a fugitive. But do the humanitarian interventions typified by America’s interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo have a future? Even as Darfur bleeds, Iraq has become a grim object lesson in the dangers of foreign adventures. The former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright recently wrote that “many of the world’s necessary interventions in »
ABC News Bill Clinton's 'Lifetime Responsibility' to Rwanda Former President Visits, Sets Up Hospitals on African Trip By KATE SNOW BUTARO, Rwanda, Aug. 2, 2008 — The mist was just clearing over the mountains of Eastern Rwanda when Bill Clinton and Chelsea walked down an uneven, rutted red clay road early this morning. They cut quite a picture -- the former president in hiking boots and a polo shirt, his daughter in a raspberry suit jacket, oversized white pearls and high-heeled designer wedge heels. Watch "GMA" Monday to see more of Kate Snow's interview with Bill Clinton. They were here »
Nicholas D. Kristof Saying No To Killers So what would you do if, like Carl Wilkens, you were caught in the middle of a genocide? Wilkens, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, was living with his wife and three small children in Kigali, Rwanda, in 1994. Then a Hutu militia began to slaughter the Tutsi, beginning with prominent figures like his banker neighbors, who threw their two youngest children to safety over a back fence before they were executed. Wilkens and his wife, Teresa, tried to distract their children from the carnage by playing a variation of musical chairs in which you »
Nicholas D. Kristof Saying No To Killers So what would you do if, like Carl Wilkens, you were caught in the middle of a genocide? Wilkens, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, was living with his wife and three small children in Kigali, Rwanda, in 1994. Then a Hutu militia began to slaughter the Tutsi, beginning with prominent figures like his banker neighbors, who threw their two youngest children to safety over a back fence before they were executed. Wilkens and his wife, Teresa, tried to distract their children from the carnage by playing a variation of musical chairs in which you »
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