Posts Tagged ‘genocide’
An African strongman, a rockstar journalist, and an EU worker with a dopey haircut all walk into a bar…
I wrote this for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and while posting it in its entirety here is going to bite into my SEO rating, I figure there aren’t a whole lot of people who can overtake me in a Google search for “jina moore.” And this, alas, is no variety show.
I wrote this [...]
An open application to join Kofi Annan’s speech writing team
Because I’d make a few tweaks to his op-ed on Holocaust education and genocide prevention. I’d clean up some sloppy language and some bad metaphors. And lest you think that’s just snotty writer talk, here’s the point up front: The metaphors we use about genocide tell us what we think causes it. [...]
Obama names Director of War Atrocities, croons to advocates, “Baby, it’s not how it sounds, I swear!”
It’s a mini-round up of the two most recent things I’ve read:
One, Obama now has a war atrocities czar — formally known as the Director of War Atrocities and Civilian Protection. At least that’s what the Daily Beast is calling David Pressman’s new job, in an article that I found pretty confusing.
Let’s [...]
April showers in Kigali
Two things happen in April in Rwanda: One, the country marks the anniversary of the genocide. Two, it rains.
A lot.
It’s the rainy season here, and at just about this time — 4:30 pm — there’s a crack of thunder, and the sky spills. Usually, it comes out of nowhere, and [...]
Remembering the genocide: Three snapshots
I am hoping to put together a quick multimedia thing to share tomorrow or Friday. Meantime, here are three snapshots from today’s Walk to Remember and the memorial at Amahoro Stadium.
A young man in the purple memorial scarf looks at the crowd preparing to walk from Parliament to the stadium.
An old woman and a [...]
Muraho! And with that: How should we cover the genocide commemoration?
I’ve finally landed back in Kigali, where I’ll be for the foreseeable future. That silence? That was me packing up my life…
Shortly, Rwanda will be consumed by remembering the 1994 genocide. The stories and photographs are already starting to appear. Today, the NYT Lens Blog has some portraits of survivors, some [...]
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