Power play behind Rwanda tragedy, official says.

National Catholic Reporter;  June 3, 1994 ;     640 words ......week she believes the massive killings in Rwanda were planned and the result of the political...Leader, U.S. deputy chief of mission in Rwanda, called the unrelenting death and destruction...various political and ethnic forces in Rwanda. She said all the people who served on...

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families:...

The Christian Century;  February 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. By Philip Gourevitch. Picador, 355...attention to an account of the tragedy in Rwanda. In just 100 days, following a government coup in early April, some 800,000 Rwandans were ruthlessly murdered by their...

Bankers lend hand to Rwanda: trio from Little Rock organize African...

Arkansas Business;  April 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ......to launch a micro-financing company in Rwanda as part of a larger ministry to which...received good news: The National Bank of Rwanda approved a merger between Opportunity...three years, and Urwego Community Bank, Rwanda's largest micro-financer. The National...

'Genocidal slaughter' claims as many as 1 million. (includes related...

UN Chronicle;  December 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......Boutros-Ghali has called the ongoing tragedy in Rwanda one of the most hideous events in recent...1 million. The protracted violence in Rwanda had created an almost unprecedented humanitarian...followed the deaths of the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi on 6 April in an airplane...

When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in...

The Christian Century;  February 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. By Mahmood Mamdani. Princeton University...attention to an account of the tragedy in Rwanda. In just 100 days, following a government coup in early April, some 800,000 Rwandans were ruthlessly murdered by their...

Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century.

The Christian Century;  February 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century. By Alain Destexhe. Translated by Alison...summer of 1994 and listening with rapt attention to an account of the tragedy in Rwanda. In just 100 days, following a government coup in early April, some 800,000 Rwandans were ruthlessly murdered by their countrymen. ...

'Never Again,' that time: a recent movie spotlights Rwanda.(AFRICA)

National Review;  April 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ......in 1987, I crossed the border between Rwanda and Zaire, it was like going from a land...of chronic hysterics. Everything on the Rwandan side was neat and tidy; everything on...disorderly. By comparison with Zaire, Rwanda was a haven of peace. The Switzerland...

Rwanda.(includes related article on Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal)(violence...

UN Chronicle;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......continuing spiral of violence in Burundi and Rwanda was affecting humanitarian operations...January. It also said that the violence in Rwanda had reached alarming levels, affecting...brutal killings of Congolese refugees in Rwanda. More than 300 people were killed and...

Rwanda five years after the genocide.

Inroads: A Journal of Opinion;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT BILL SCHABAS HAS VISITED Rwanda over a dozen times since the genocide...briefly surveys the colonial history of Rwanda from its discovery by German colonists...served the cause of reconciliation that Rwanda's post-1994 government has opted for criminal...

Rebuilding Rwanda: having endured one of the worst genocides in history,...

ColoradoBiz;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...KIGALI, RWANDA--It's been just 48 hours since I stepped...already, my preconceived notions about Rwanda have been replaced by a kinder, more hopeful...understanding the current position of Rwanda. Indeed. Fourteen years after Rwanda endured...

Into the heart of Rwanda.

Catholic Insight;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......French and especially Kinyarwandi, the local language. Rwandans break spontaneously into simple, repetitious songs at...church was the third Catholic Mission (1903) in all of Rwanda. It has nine substations. The main church, which holds...coming to a considerable number of persons and places in Rwanda ...

Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR)

Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security;      351 words ...Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR) The Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR) also operates as, or is known as, Interahamwe...Armed Forces (ex-FAR). The FAR was the army of the Rwandan Hutu regime that carried out the genocide of 500...

Confronting the horror. (genocide in Rwanda) (Editorial) (Editorial)

Commonweal;  July 15, 1994 ;     588 words ......women and children, have been killed in Rwanda since that East African state descended...well-planned in advance. The killers, members of Rwanda's majority Hutu tribe, are determined...rivals. Hutu civilian militias, led by the Rwandan army, have mercilessly hunted down their...

Rwanda.(Peacewatch: Spot Stories)

UN Chronicle;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......protection, and the poor judicial system in Rwanda, and they called on the Government to...elements of the former Armed Forces of Rwanda, in particular the killing of 17 schoolgirls...the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The schoolchildren were killed along...

Rwanda: to cope at any cost.... (small coffee producer confronts the free...

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal;  July 1, 1990 ;     656 words ...Rwanda: To cope at any cost . . . A small producer rools up its...purposes mostly only one grade of coffee to offer, you are Rwanda. As neighboring Burundi had taken, in the early 80's the...state-of-the-art sorting machines, and to diversify its clients, Rwanda had not implemented any change regarding ...