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DRC Conflict: Despite Drones and UN as Combatant Is But a Footnote
By Matthew Russell Lee The United Nations has taken an unprecedented turn in the Eastern Congo, deploying attack helicopters and, under Herve Ladsous, drones, turning its troops into combatants,...
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Racism yardstick: It’s all about oppression
By David Camfield* What is racism? Manitoba media outlets have been full of coverage of the charge that a 2012 email sent by deputy premier Eric Robinson was racist. The controversy took off after the...
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Kagame-Kikwete handshake begs FDLR question
Over its past six extraordinary summits on the security situation in eastern DR Congo, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region has gained notoriety for delivering little on its supposed...
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In Our World, Racism Is On The Rise
By Harry Keaney THERE HAS been “an alarming” increase in reported incidents of racism in Sligo. A new reporting service was set up earlier this year. Two incidents were reported in June, four in July....
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Minister Membe’s remarks on DRCongo Conflict Were Imprudent
On the eve of last week’s summit of leaders of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region in Kampala, Tanzania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Membe, made outrageous comments...
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Génocide des Tutsi: Les enjeux du discours négationniste
Il est presque un devoir pour tout homme qui se réclame de cette nature de ne pas être complice, ni par le silence ni par la négation, d’un si tragique événement qu’est le génocide des Tutsi. Nous...
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Rebutting Retroactive Racism is a Necessity
By Paul Shlichta I intend to see 12 Years a Slave; it sounds like a very good movie. But I was somewhat daunted by the discordant note struck at its debut in Toronto: Toronto festival artistic director...
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Not sure France will ever try and convict genocidaires
They are often compared to Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, the activist couple who came to fame in 1960s tracking down Nazis from France. But Alain and Dafroza Gauthier have their sights on Rwanda’s 1994...
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Rays of hope from ‘Kinyarwanda’
Most of you have probably heard about the Rwandan genocide in 1994. When I heard about it for the first time, it seemed to be no more than one of those small, trivial international news I got from TV,...
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Complicity? Ladsous Speaks On DRC and of M23 “Licking Wounds,” But Refuses...
When UN Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous came Thursday for what turned out to be a mere four-question “press conference,” there was a lot of history in the air. Not only the history of Ladsous refusing...
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Duping the London Metropolitan Police
Those were the days. The days when London Metropolitan Police was a studious law-enforcing force that did its honest-to-goodness job as Sir Robert Peel (RIP), its founder, taught it how. Alas, those...
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Blindness to FDLR remain Unexplained as UN Security Council Plan trip to the DRC
With even a canceled UN Security Council consultation on Syria making news worldwide, on Tuesday afternoon more junior Security Council diplomats gathered in the Council, “on another topic,” as one...
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Towards Understanding the Deep Roots Of An insidious Racism
An extraordinary new book argues that anti-Judaism was one of the basic tools with which the edifice of western thought was created ‘A hideous Jew . . .was standing by the entrance, smoking a vile...
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Tension As DRC Soldier Is Arrested In Rwanda
Senior Non-Commissioned Officer, Sergeant Major Kusakana Munanga Andre, service number (matricule): 1-72-88-93460-89 was on Sunday arrested by Rwanda’s security services in Rubavu Town, Western Rwanda...
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Cars Targeted in Hate Crime Attacks Against East Europeans
POLICE are investigating after cars in Bognor Regis were targeted in a vicious attack. Officers have appealed for information after numerous vehicles were damaged with yellow paint in what is being...
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AFP Beats the Drums of War to SADC tune: Nostalgia of pro-Nazi OFI?
Agence France-Presse (AFP) published a story yesterday with the ominous headline, “Rwandan invasion of DR Congo feared”. Few topics are more serious to report about than the prospect of one country...
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Rwandan genocidaires have a protector at the helm of UN Peace-Keeping
By Georgianne Nienaber The “International Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda and the Surrounding Events” was created by the Organization of African Unity and met...
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Good people should not allow genocide ideology to thrive in Africa’s GLR
I read with grief the article, “The untold story of Tanzania evictees”, published in The New Times of September 10. I sincerely feel sorry for our brothers and sisters of both Rwanda’s origin and...
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The World is Watching: Will Syria Be Obama’s Rwanda?
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach When I visited Rwanda last month, I was preceded by President Clinton who arrived the day before. Clinton is a regular visitor to Rwanda and his Clinton Global Initiative does...
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U.N. forces in the DRC are expensive to maintain but less effective -Document
The U.N. peacekeeping force in Democratic Republic of Congo must revamp its strategy for protecting civilians, because existing tactics were having little lasting effect, according to an internal...
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