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Rwanda’s Tutsi Genocide and Lessons America Hasn’t Learned
Walking into the Ntarama Church outside Kigali and witnessing the scenes of mass slaughter that are all around you, I instantly began to gag and ran outside lest I be sick in consecrated ground. I...
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Genocide and Susan Rice’s Failures in Rwanda
That Susan Rice either willfully misled the American people on the Benghazi attacks, or lazily absorbed intelligence briefings without the least bit of personal involvement, is obvious. That she was...
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Was the Holocaust Punishment for Sin?
For so many people religion is practiced out of a sense superstition. Like a furry rabbit’s foot, it wards off evil spirits. Fulfilling the word of God keeps you from experiencing bad things. So what...
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Hate Speech Out of the Mouth of a Child in Canada
The hateful incitement offered by Elias Hazineh, the former president of Palestine House in suburban Toronto, at an Al Quds rally in Toronto has attracted a lot of attention, as well it should. The man...
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Racism: words matter
Racist expressions have been legitimised by their use by elected politicians and, worse, the government itself. PG Wodehouse was perhaps the greatest of the 20th-century masters of language. He studied...
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When Refugee Warriors Become a Threat
By Howard Adelman1 INTRODUCTION Astri Suhrke coined the phrase “refugee warriors” in the now classic volume by Ari Zolberg, Astri Suhrke and Sergio Aguayo, Escape from Violence: Conflict and the...
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Hate Speech is Spreading Poisonous Falsehoods About a Targeted Group
“Huckabee later clarified that he did not mean to refer to all 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide. How nice.” How nice, indeed. That’s what hate speech is. It’s an attempt to hook onto visceral, unexamined...
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The Rationale of Hating Hate Speech
By Sherman Frederick It’s OK to hate hate speech, isn’t it? I think so. If there’s one thing upon which we all ought to agree, it is that hate speech is bad. Left, right, black, white, foreign,...
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In an open letter, Ken Roth is reminded he is a Rwanda hater
Dear Mr. Roth, I have been compelled to write you this letter following your recent ‘report’ in which you alleged that Rwanda supports the M23 rebels in DRC and that the M23 had raped and killed...
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Regional and International efforts in Conflict Resolution and Transformation...
By Emmanuel Nibishaka Although the DR Congo conflict has now become intractable, it has attracted many international and regional peace process efforts. For instance, currently, the country hosts one...
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Rwandan Experience and the ‘Never Again’
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Rwanda might not be everyone’s idea of a family trip, but it’s one of my favorite places in the world. And after visiting last year to highlight the 1994 genocide and promote...
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United Nations Investigates Congolese Writer’s “Genetic Signature” While...
By Georgianne Nienaber Imagine that you are a Congolese woman, now living in the European Union. Your father was from Bas Congo and your mother was born in Buisha in eastern Congo. You are Congolese in...
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Race, Crime and Statistical Malpractice: How the Right Manipulates White Fear...
As soon as news began to spread about the horrific and utterly senseless murder of an Australian-born baseball player in Oklahoma at the hands of three young black males (or at least, that’s how they...
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Nazis Can’t Calculate: Reflections on Racism, Crime and the Illiteracy of...
White supremacists never cease to amaze me. So, for instance, ever since my essay from a few days ago went up — the one where I broke down, in painstaking detail, how the notion of a widespread...
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Racial tensions still causing divide. First black Italian Minister a victim...
At times it is hard for some to imagine that we still live in a world of many firsts. Not even a decade ago, the first non-white president of the United States was elected. Many states in the country...
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What Rwanda can teach Northern Ireland about reconciliation
Sometimes we are so obsessed in Northern Ireland with flags, emblems, territorial disputes and street confrontations, that we do not realise, or care about, what is happening in the big world outside....
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Tanzanian Media and War Mongering
A Tanzanian Kiswahili newspaper- Mwanainchi came up with a story whose title translates to mean that it takes years to build a country but a minute to destroy. The warning directed at President Paul...
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A Decade of Saving Lives and Transformational Change in Rwanda
Last Friday, I was privileged to join six U.S. Senators in seeing the truly profound impact of U.S. global AIDS investments in Rwanda. We were also fortunate to be accompanied by Dr. Mark Dybul,...
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Under President Ronald Reagan USA ‘helped Saddam Hussein carry out chemical...
As Washington ponders over whether to hammer Damascus over unidentified use of toxic agents in Syria, declassified CIA documents reveal that 25 years ago the US actually indulged ruthless Saddam...
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Rwanda, Tanzania Talks to Improve Relations
THE Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC), Dr Richard Sezibera, has admitted that there are, “indeed, some political tensions” between Tanzania and Rwanda but has assured member nations...
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